Here’s a blessing written by
Brother David Steindalrast.
Blessing
May you grow still enough to hear
the small noises
earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter,
so that you
yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.
May you grow still enough to hear
the trickling of
water seeping into the ground,
so that your
soul may be softened and healed,
guided in
its flow.
May you grow still enough to hear
the splintering
of starlight in the winter sky
and the roar
at earth's fiery core.
May you grow still enough to hear
the stir of a
single snowflake in the air
so that your
inner silence may turn into hushed expectation.
Peace..... the angel announced.
But peace is as much task as gift.
Only if we become calm as earth,
fluid as water,
and blazing
as fire
will we be able to rise to the task of peacemaking,
and the air will stir with the rush of wings of angels
arriving to help us.
This is why I wish you that great inner stillness
which alone allows us to speak, even today,
without irony of
"peace on earth"
and, without
despair, to work for it.
—written by Brother David Steindalrast, OSB, on the Process and Faith website.
