In March, I wrote and posted several "blessings" here on The Profound Bartender. I summarized them for the folks who follow Profound Living, and thought it might be useful to see in one posting. Perhaps also they might be useful to forward to others who are looking for solace, or meaning, comfort, or even joy … Continue reading Counting Your Blessings
The size of a home or how it looks, matters not what's inside's what counts. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with care in times of worry, support in times of fear, comfort when comforts flee. May we care, support, and comfort Those who need these most, In times of worry, … Continue reading Comfort, When Comforts Flee
I am too prideful Monday I lost seven pounds Tuesday I found them Source Of All Blessings You bless us With humor - ours and others'. Laughter at ourselves, our predicaments, Our foibles. Laughter at our situation, its dangers, Its ludicrousness, With guffaws, chuckles, winces We physically relax and let go. Our worries … Continue reading We Are Blessed With Humor
Stay with me a bit, hummingbird so beautiful. Stay. My heart still smiles. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with long lines and waiting to teach us patience, with uncertainty to teach us humility, with isolation to teach us contemplation and the time to watch hummingbirds come and go and … Continue reading Thank You For The Lessons Of Life
An old, red brick house Sitting small on scrabbley grass It was home to me Source Of All Blessings You bless us with time to reconnect to self, family, Friends, purpose, and meaning. May I fill this lacuna with memories, reflections, insight love, generosity, and renewed commitment to spending more of my life doing … Continue reading Growing Up In Kansas
Generosity Compassion and gratitude and loving kindness Source of all blessings You bless us with shelter, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual when the winds of the world beat down when the storms of plague steal into the night looking for us. May I recognize God's hand May I grasp Your divine arm, … Continue reading In This Crucible Of Life And Death
Along the Boise trails Two women talk on cell phones Missing the deer tracks Source Of All Blessings You bless us with socks. My feet are always cold, it seems and socks warm them and I cuddle with myself under a toasty electric blanket and feel some disquiet for those who aren't as … Continue reading Deer Tracks and Socks
The virus keeps us Home and heart are everywhere Blue flowers are too Source of all blessings You bless us with faith when we have done all we can to protect those we love. You bless us with love when so many parts of our life seem bleak. You bless us … Continue reading Blue Flowers Are Too
My contemplation Begins in dark, ends in light Called by the bird's song. Source of all blessings You bless us with people who care for people they have never met, Who sacrifice for others they will never know, Who go hungry so the hungry may eat. May I be more like these saints … Continue reading Called By The Bird’s Song
Poets, authors, all Artists draw from deeper wells To replenish souls. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with mystery The unknown, the unknowable, and the unlikely. May I always open all of me Heart, mind, body, spirit To all that might be. Thank you for thin places Deep spaces Warm … Continue reading Artists Draw From Deeper Wells
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