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.
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.
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