Day 10: A Blessing for Beauty

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"May the light of dawn anoint your eyes that you may behold what a miracle a day is."

(John O'Donohue - From Beauty - The Invisible Embrace)

Even when we wake in the dark.

Even when rain pelts sideways against your bedroom window.

I roll over and turn on my lamp and see this prayer.

It anoints me, the incense of my prayer offered up to the Maker of my small, wonderful life.

My feet swing out from the comfort of my warm bed, they feel the ground and though I may not feel it, I know that to live another day truly is,

A miracle.

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