I was sitting at my counsellor’s office, waiting for my appointment and randomly picked up a book that was on the coffee table. It caught my eye with it’s celtic patterns and drew me in when I saw it was by John O’Donohue, an Irish writer and poet who had often attended a Festival I loved back in the UK. I flipped open to the index and saw that there was a blessing entitled “For the Breakup of a Relationship”. The words touched my heart as I sat there, coming back to mind over the next few days so much that I bought the book so I’d have them to hand. I shared them with friends who are on a similar journey and share them here, with some of the pictures that came to mind with these timely words.

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.