I am reading David Whyte, poet and author. In The Three Marriages he writes:
"Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind o f acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking."

Here's a blessing I am using at the end of worship these days. I was inspired by a Christmas blessing by Fra Giovanni who died in about 1513.

A Blessing

May God bless you with eyes to see God – God who is all that you need – and that God is very near at hand.

May God bless you with the courage to find heaven in your heart. For you cannot find it elsewhere. Find heaven.

May God bless you with the patience to discover the fullness of God’s Peace which is not to be awaited in some grand or far-off future, but is in the face of your neighbor today. Find peace.

May God bless you with a hope that sees beyond any gloom in your life today, that sees through the shadow of this present hour to what is more true in the light behind the shadow, God’s joy. Find joy.

God’s Day is breaking here and always. May you be blessed by the God who is all in all and may you take this ever real God to everyone you meet that they may be blessed also. Amen.

Chocolate

One of my friends noticed that the title to this blog promises musings about many things and that the musings have delivered each and all except . . . chocolate. How could I go so long with nothing about chocolate? This is not like me. Especially in difficult and challenging times such as I find myself right now (more on that in other posts to come). I have always sided with J.K. Rowling who says in her Harry Potter books that chocolate can send away the dementors (the dark forces). At any rate, I shall try to find more to say about chocolate. Let this just suffice to at least make the heading on the blog correct that there is indeed chocolate mentioned here! I even found a picture of some chocolate. This is my son, Josh, celebrating his 19th birthday with a chocolate cake! You can see the dementors running away in his smile even before he takes a bite!