Pause.

Blessed be the gifts you never notice, your health, eyes to behold the world,
thoughts to countenance the unknown, memory to harvest vanished days,
your heart to feel the world’s waves,
your breath to breathe the nourishment
of distance made intimate by earth.

-John O’Donohue, from For Your Birthday,
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“Today my prayer consisted in simply going to my heart and remembering all the folks I’ve stored there. It is not cold storage. It is a quite warm and tender place.”

— Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB