Tuesday, May 30:
Today, find a door to pray at. We enter and exit so many doors throughout our days, we don’t stop to think about that space of transition. So pray at the door today. It could be the door to your home, or your child’s school, or even your office, or the doorway at a friends’ house. Whatever door you choose, place your hand on it and read these words of blessing:
“First let us say a blessing
upon all who have
entered here before us.
You can see the sign
of their passage
by the worn place
where their hand rested
on the doorframe
as they walked through,
the smooth sill
of the threshold
where they crossed.
Press your ear to the door
for a moment before you enter,
and you will hear their voices murmuring
words you cannot quite make out
but know are full of welcome.
On the other side,
these ones who wait-
for you,
if you do not know by now-
understand what a blessing can do:
how it appears like
nothing you expected;
how it arrives as visitor,
outrageous invitation, child;
how it takes the form
of angel or dream;
how it comes in words like
How can this be?
and lifted up the lowly;
how it sounds like
in the wilderness
prepare the way.
Those who wait for you know
how the mark of a true blessing
is that it will take you where you did not think to go.
Once through this door, there will be more:
more doors, more blessings,
more who watch and wait for you.
But here at this door of beginning,
the blessing cannot be said without you.
So lay your palm against the frame
that those before you touched.
Place your feet
where others paused
in this entryway.
Say the thing that you most need,
and the door will open wide.
And by this word the door is blessed,
and by this word the blessing is begun from which,
door by door, all the rest will come.”
-Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace
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