30th of April 2020

Today's offering has been selected by Mindfulness Chaplain, Dr Kitty Wheater. Kitty has chosen a verse from Benedictus: a Book of Blessings, by John O'Donoghue.

Photograph of Grand Lake, Ontario. There is a small boat on the water, beyond the water there is the silhouette of the shoreline and above their is a sunset behind grey clouds. — A Journey on Grand Lake, Ontario, by Kitty Wheater.

Verse from Benedictus: a Book of Blessings, by John O'Donoghue

This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.

You can hear Fergal Keane read this aloud, for the BBC's series on poems of comfort and hope, here.

This article was published on 7 Jul, 2021