Blessing in the Chaos

Here’s a thought I’d like to share…

Blessing in the Chaos

To all that is chaotic in you,
let there come silence.

Let there be a calming of the clamoring,
a stilling of the voices that
have laid their claim on you,
that have made be their home in you,

that go with you even to the holy places
but will not let you rest,
will not let you hear your life with wholeness
or feel the grace that fashioned you.

Let what distracts you cease.
Let what divides you cease.
Let there come an end to what diminishes and demeans,
and let depart all that keeps you in its cage.

Let there be an opening
into the quiet that lies beneath the chaos,
where you find the peace you did not think possible
and see what shimmers within the storm.

~Jan Richardson