To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
An Irish poet and former priest writes blessings for the occasions that otherwise pass unmarked: a new job, a death, leaving home, a marriage ending, a diagnosis.
The Irish poet and former priest wrote blessings for thresholds: a new job, a death, leaving home, a marriage ending, an illness diagnosed. He draws on the Celtic tradition without sentimentalising it, and the result gives secular readers a form of address for the occasions that otherwise pass unmarked. It was his last book, published shortly before his death in 2008.
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How to leap into the thrilling and terrifying unknowns of the possible is what the Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue (January 1, 1956–January 4, 2008) explores in a chapter of his parting gift to the world, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (public library), which also gave us his luminous meditation on kindling the light between us and within us.
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