I’ve been looking forward to this last verse of John O’Donohue’s blessing For a New Beginning all week! These words have drawn me through the reality and vulnerability of the earlier verses. Knowing it would be worth it in the end. Awaken your spirit to adventure;Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;Soon you …
Yes. That’s all it takes. Not if’s and but’s and maybe’s. Simply yes. Though your destination is not yet clearYou can trust the promise of this opening;Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginningThat is at one with your life’s desire. The fifth verse from John O’Donohue’s blessing: For a New Beginning. ~ Cheering on those …
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,And out you stepped onto new ground,Your eyes young again with energy and dream,A path of plenitude opening up before you. As my friend, Amos Doornbos often remarks: the choice is up to us. ~ This is the fourth verse of John O’Donohue’s blessing: For a New Beginning.
We don’t always know when it’s time to move or to change. Yet often, something occurs that throws the folly of the comfort blanket we are holding into sharp relief. We didn’t realise – until we did – that we were holding back. And then we can’t unknow. It watched you play with the seduction …
It’s hard to let go of things that have defined us. Yet, we cannot both hold on to the old and grasp the new simultaneously. Indeed, this voyage into autumn reminds us that death precedes re-birth. The leaf must change colour. The seed has to fall. This stripping away is essential to prepare for the …
Beauty is not always what we see at first sight. Perhaps it’s because we’re not expecting it and need to look from a different angle. Or what we see is still emerging. Like a newborn, this isn’t its finished form. This week I want to walk with the good words of John O’Donohue’s blessing For …
Wandering through life and appreciating good conversations along the way, this journey increasingly feels like an arc rather than a straight line. And here the words of T S Eliot at the end of Little Gidding, from Four Quartets, become more and more real: We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our …
“In the bigger scheme of things, the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing.” – Lucille Clifton These profoundly insightful words from the poet Lucille Clifton say it all. Being is where we started. All of us. And we forget …
When I got my first CEO job, Steve bought me a little watering can. This was because I love having plants in my workspace. Yet, it was also a visual reminder to water with words of encouragement. Water refreshes and invigorates. We need it to flourish. And similarly, the words that surround us are like …
Make good trouble. This was the beautiful thread running through Makers + Mavericks 21 run by David Hieatt and team over the weekend. Make good trouble. A manifesto in a simple phrase summing up a heartbeat and inspiring hope. And to make good trouble, we need to release the flow of more good words to …