A Sending Blessing
It is a strange thing
to be so bound
and so released
all in the same moment,
to feel the heart
open wide
and wider still
even as it turns
to take its leave.
to be so bound
and so released
all in the same moment,
to feel the heart
open wide
and wider still
even as it turns
to take its leave.
On this day,
let us say
this is simply the way
love moves
in its ceaseless spiraling,
turning us toward
one another, then sending us
into what waits for us
with arms open wide to us
in welcome
and in hope.
let us say
this is simply the way
love moves
in its ceaseless spiraling,
turning us toward
one another, then sending us
into what waits for us
with arms open wide to us
in welcome
and in hope.
On this day,
in this place
where you have
poured yourself out,
where you have been
emptied
and filled
and emptied again,
may you be aware
more than ever
of what your heart
has opened to
here,
what it has tended
and welcomed
here,
where it has broken
in love and in grief,
where it has given
and received blessing
in the unfathomable mystery
that moves us, undoes us,
and remakes us
in this place
where you have
poured yourself out,
where you have been
emptied
and filled
and emptied again,
may you be aware
more than ever
of what your heart
has opened to
here,
what it has tended
and welcomed
here,
where it has broken
in love and in grief,
where it has given
and received blessing
in the unfathomable mystery
that moves us, undoes us,
and remakes us
finally for joy.
This day
may you know
this joy
in full measure.
may you know
in full measure.
This day
may you know
this blessing
that gathers you in
and sends you forth
but will not
forget you.
may you know
this blessing
that gathers you in
and sends you forth
but will not
forget you.
O hear us
as this day
we say
grace;
this day
we say
grateful;
this day
we say
blessing;
this day
we release you
in God’s keeping
and hold you
in gladness
and love.
as this day
we say
grace;
this day
we say
grateful;
this day
we say
blessing;
this day
we release you
in God’s keeping
and hold you
in gladness
and love.
—Jan Richardson
“© Jan Richardson. janrichardson.com.”
There are lots of people moving around now that school is out.
Ministry moves, military moves, housing moves,
career moves, schooling moves, job moves,
and just plain old moves.
Challenging moves and easy moves.
May anyone in this time of transition-
walk with hearts full and gratefully wrapped in love.
Thanks to Jan Richardson
for her beautiful words written for a ministry move.
