EDITGrounding
I can mark an ending honestly before I race to a beginning.
Endings, beginnings and the bare ground between them. Whether the change was chosen or thrust upon us, these prayers honour what is finishing, steady us in the in-between, and bless what is beginning — without pretending that every transition is easy or welcome.
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EDITOriginal compositionPRACShared traditionGod of new mornings, who makes a way where there was no way,
I stand at a beginning — chosen or thrust upon me — with hope and dread mixed in equal parts. Bless the first steps: let them be small, honest and taken in good company. Keep me from demanding that the new thing immediately feel like home; roots take a season. Where I romanticise what I left, correct my memory kindly. Where I catastrophise what I am entering, correct my imagination the same way. I do not need to see the whole of this road. I need courage for the mile I can se…
Bless this beginning and the beginner. I go forward in hope, one honest mile at a time. Amen.
I can mark an ending honestly before I race to a beginning.
The in-between is not empty; it is where I travel lightest.
Beginnings are allowed to feel strange; I give this one a season.
What is ending in your life, and have you let yourself mark it?
What are you in-between right now — and what does this threshold ask of you?
What are you most afraid the change will take, and what might it make possible?