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I love clown of God, it’s part of our home library. And I shall keep you in my prayers; this feels like a strange and trying season from my perspective as well. Much love to you ❤️

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Thank you Jenn💜

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There is something so disorienting about not feeling or thinking like yourself. I’ve been there too these last couple months and that feeling of being not quite at home in your own life is uncomfortable. A friend shared this poem with me several years ago, so I’ll share it with you now:

Welcoming Blessing

by Jan Richardson

When you are lost

in your own life.

When the landscape

you have known

falls away.

When your familiar path

becomes foreign

and you find yourself

a stranger

in the story you had held

most dear.

Then let yourself

be lost.

Let yourself leave

for a place

whose contours

you do not already know,

whose cadences

you have not learned

by heart.

Let yourself land

on a threshold

that mirrors the mystery

of your own

bewildered soul.

It will come

as a surprise,

what arrives

to welcome you

through the door,

making a place for you

at the table

and calling you

by your name.

Let what comes,

come.

Let the glass

be filled.

Let the light

be tended.

Let the hands

lay before you

what will meet you

in your hunger.

Let the laughter.

Let the sweetness

that enters

the sorrow.

Let the solace

that comes

as sustenance

and sudden, unbidden grace.

For what comes,

offer gladness.

For what greets you

with kindly welcome,

offer thanks.

Offer blessing

for those

who gathered you in

and will not

be forgotten—

those who,

when you were

a stranger,

made a place for you

at the table

and called you by your name

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Thank you my friend. I appreciate this. So beautiful . I know you are not a stranger to pain and health stuff. Thanks for sharing this and commenting, too. ❤️

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Thank you Julie. Thank you for juggling. Thank you for holding the tension. Thank you for the depth of humanity, love, and determination that you share in the midst of your word juggles. You are a beautiful person and the way you share yourself deepens my faith. Vicki

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So much love to you, Vicki. You (and your lovely family for sure) are such a peaceful presence. Thanks for your kind words, they mean a lot!!!

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