Monday, May 8, 2023

Blessing with Many Rooms

Jan Richardson

As you step inside

this blessing

we wish to tell you

it is large enough

for you to lie down in.

(though it may not look it,

small as it is upon this page)

you can curl up

in this blessing

with a cup of tea

and a good book

beside the window—

here, just behind you—

that faces east.

Likewise it is true,

though you might not have

paused long enough

to notice,

that this blessing

is big enough

for a table—

quite a sizable one

can be accommodated—

where your guests

will want to linger

far into the night.

And if they desire to stay,

you will find that

through this door—

you did not see it before?—

there are rooms in plenty

where they can

lay their heads

and stretch out with abandon

in their dreaming sleep.

One room,

many rooms—

in this blessing

it is all the same.

The point is that

there is space

enough.

Enough to make

a life, a home;

enough to make

a world.

Enough to make

your way toward

the One who has made

this way for you.

—Jan Richardson

Blessing and image inspired by this Sunday's gospel reading from John 14:1-14.