New Year’s Benediction
we have this day - today - and we have none other.
these hands, these lips, these feet,
this breath, this spirit, this song:
we have none other.
how full of mystery our world becomes,
how full of wonder, awe, majesty, silence, beauty and
wild joy our world becomes
when we are fully present in it.
let this now be the year we find
the endless wonder of a child-like faith,
let this now be the year we find
the staggering awe that comes in god’s presence,
let this now be the year we find
that majesty is the child of humility, wisdom and peace,
let this now be the year we find
that silence is the language of worship,
let this now be the year we find that beauty is within us all,
and everyone we meet,
and let this now be the year we know the wild joy
that cascades, splashes, bursts, pours, charges and foams
like a wilderness of river rapids through
all those channels that
life has cut into our souls.
and in this, more than any other year,
may you be fully present in all that god desires;
and may you know - really know -
that you are the child he loves best.