Eyes washed with grace

The house is quiet still and the day is ahead, full of demands and projects and people.  There is a long list of those suffering and in pain today in my heart.  May the baptism of a new day's light wash each of us with grace.


Breathing in these words from Celtic Benedictions, ed. by Philip Newell.


Show to me this day
amist life's dark streaks of wrong and suffering
the light that endures in every person.
Dispel the confusions that cling close to my soul
that I may see with eyes washed by grace
that I may see myself and all people
with eyes cleansed by the freshness of the new day's light.