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"Dear sweetheart,
I understand your affliction. You sense there is a distance between you and the homeland of wholeness. Life can do that sometimes. It can send us into distress and oblivion, where we can feel confined by limitation and difficulty. This ache can be seen as divine intervention nested in the eye we don't want to look into. It is our home we pine for and the home that pines for us. But even home can feel far away, and the length and space you feel standing between you and a rooted place of peace can feel like too vast an expanse to cross alone. You can start to doubt your refuge of faith. Stranded and at a loss for how to return, the delusions of your separateness rise like smoke and fog around your feet, blinding your way and leading you to believe in nothing. These are when the hallways are long and dark. These are the times of circling storms of sand and haunting echoes of your voice. These times call for blessings and slowness so that our yearning may catch up to you and lead you home."
— an excerpt from a letter from mighty me to the little me.
What is a blessing? John O'donahue says: "A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal, and strengthen. And when we bless, we are somehow enabled to go beyond our present frontiers and reach into the source. A blessing awakens future wholeness. We use the word foreshadow for the imperfect representation of something yet to come. We could say that a blessing "fore-brightens" the way. When a blessing is invoked, a window opens to eternal time."
When I sense my children are wrestling with something they have no words for, when I can see a shadow cast over their lighted eyes, I will ask if I may bless them before they sleep. They have never refused one. In the times when the soul has met something bigger than words, questioning and probing can only lead us so far. We need blessings to bypass the mind and to invoke the generous spirit of second sight and our deepest seeing. We need blessings to be reminded that our path is sacred and to invite the confident depth of the hidden self to walk with us.
