Today's Lenten Meditation: A Friendship Blessing

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 ċara.

~ from Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue