60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: How Would it Feel if Someone Sent You A Blessing For a New Beginning?

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://www.baraboo.com/" target="_blank">Baraboo, Wisconsin</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>Maybe like me you pay attention when something unexpected arrives just in the nick of time giving you some encouragement exactly when you need it!  My sister, Marilyn, penned the following lines by the poet John O’Donohue on a postcard, affixed a stamp and sent it all the way across the country in the USMail, and lifted my spirits in the same way I hope this moment of reflection lifts yours!  </p><p><strong>A Blessing For a New Beginning</strong></p><p>“<i>In out of the way places of the heart</i></p><p><i>Where your thoughts never think to wander</i></p><p><i>This beginning has been quietly forming</i></p><p><i>Waiting until you were ready to emerge.</i></p><p> </p><p><i>For a long time it has watched your desire</i></p><p><i>Feeling the emptiness grow inside you</i></p><p><i>Noticing how you willed yourself on</i></p><p><i>Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.</i></p><p> </p><p><i>It watched you play with the seduction of safety</i></p><p><i>And the grey promises that sameness whispered</i></p><p><i>Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent</i></p><p><i>Wondered would you always live like this.</i></p><p> </p><p><i>Then the delight, when your courage kindled,</i></p><p><i>And out you stepped onto new ground,</i></p><p><i>Your eyes young again with energy and dream</i></p><p><i>A path of plenitude opening before you.</i></p><p> </p><p><i>Though your destination is not clear</i></p><p><i>You can trust the promise of this opening;</i></p><p><i>Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning</i></p><p><i>That is one with your life’s desire.</i></p><p> </p><p><i>Awaken your spirit to adventure</i></p><p><i>Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk</i></p><p><i>Soon you will be home in a new rhythm</i></p><p><i>For your soul senses the world that awai