If A Year for You had a blessing that came with it, it would be a beauty of a poem by the late John O’Donohue.
May his poem (excerpted below) give you a sense of what you might experience when when you give yourself the gift of “slow drip” clearing and soulful nourishment for an entire year…
"When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic/ Time takes on the strain until it breaks/ then all the unsettled stress falls in/ On the mind like an endless, increasing weight/ …
Weariness invades your spirit/ Gravity begins falling inside you/ Dragging down every bone/ …
Something within you has closed down/ And you cannot push yourself back to life/
You have been forced to enter empty time/… There is nothing else to do now but rest/ And patiently learn to receive the self /You have forsaken in the race for days/
You have traveled too fast over false ground/ Now your soul has come to take you back/
Take refuge in your senses, open up/ To all the small miracles you have rushed through/
Draw alongside the silence of stone/ Until its calmness can claim you/ Be excessively gentle with yourself/…
Gradually you will return to yourself/ Having learned a new respect for your heart/ And the joy that dwells far within slow time."
