Circle of Grace

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So come and sit
in this place
made holy
by its hollows.
You think you have
too much to do,
too little time,
too great a weight
of responsibility
that none but you
can carry.

I tell you,
lay it down.
Just for a moment,
if that’s what you
can manage at first.

Five minutes.
Lift up your voice—
in laughter,
in weeping,
it does not matter—
and let it ring against
these spacious walls.
Do this
until you can hear
the spaces within
tour own breathing.

Do this
until you can feel
the hollow in your heart
where something
is letting go,
where something
is making way.

-Jan Richardson in Circle of Grace