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On this most beautiful of nights, sending you all warmth and goodness over this strange and wonderful cyberspace. Take a moment, if you can, to watch this You Tube video<\/a> which has the words of one of my favourite writers, John O’Donohue – Bennacht (celtic for blessing) and a beautiful song, O Night Divine. The words of John O’Donohue’s blessing are here – maybe read them together before a meal over Christmas?<\/p>\n On the day when When the canvas frays May the nourishment of the earth be yours,\n
\nthe weight deadens
\non your shoulders
\nand you stumble,
\nmay the clay dance
\nto balance you.
\nAnd when your eyes
\nfreeze behind
\nthe grey window
\nand the ghost of loss
\ngets in to you,
\nmay a flock of colours,
\nindigo, red, green,
\nand azure blue
\ncome to awaken in you
\na meadow of delight.<\/p>\n
\nin the currach of thought
\nand a stain of ocean
\nblackens beneath you,
\nmay there come across the waters
\na path of yellow moonlight
\nto bring you safely home.<\/p>\n
\nmay the clarity of light be yours,
\nmay the fluency of the ocean be yours,
\nmay the protection of the ancestors be yours.
\nAnd so may a slow
\nwind work these words
\nof love around you,
\nan invisible cloak
\nto mind your life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n