Note: Reflection shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel
“To care is to enter into the experience of someone whose life is invaded by suffering and powerlessness, and to recognize not only their need for the care we can give but for our need for the care we can receive.”
The Church Reader
The late John O’ Donohue encouraged us, "to offer a prayer of graciousness for the love that has awakened in us and to offer the warmth of our love out to others as a blessing. To send love out into the world to reach people who may be suffering," wherever they might be trapped in prison, a hospital bed, poverty, or perhaps within the confines of our own patterned thinking and limited worldview.
O’ Donohue believed that love is the deepest power of prayer and he sends us this:
May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where
there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
may they bring you all the blessing, challenges, truth,
and light that you need for your journey.
May you never be isolated.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your Anam Cara.
John O’Donohue
Mandala by ~liz
Journal of Sacred Work 
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