Morning holds a special dignity of her own. Awakening in the quiet sanctity of her arms, listen as life begins to stir. In his book, “Eternal Echoes” John O’Donouhue encourages us to greet each day in the ancient tradition of a prayerful intention by taking a
moment to welcome her arrival.

Increasingly, I find myself distracted, multi-tasking, half-heartedly
present. When we do this, O’Donohue cautions we are holding back and avoiding the
truth of a situation, diminishing the person before us, our friendships and the
possibilities of our experiences. John reminds us that the most precious gift
we can offer is the gift of ourselves.

John gifts us with this prayerful poem by Fernando Pessoa.

To Be Great Be Entire

To be great, be entire:

O what is yours nothing

Exaggerate or exclude

Be whole in each thing. Put all that you are

Into the least you do

Like that on each place the whole moon

Shines for she lives aloft.

                                                                              By-Fernando Pessoa

Contributed by ~liz Sorensen Wessel

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