“Continue……And by doing so, you and your work will be able to continue. Eternally.”
Maya Angelou
Happy New Year!
I hope you are all having a wonderful new year. This week I’m going to keep it short, sweet and deeply profound. The words I share below are not my words; they are the words of one of the greatest teachers I have ever come across and I’m sharing them with you because for me, they encapsulate the ongoing journey I feel I’m on and they inspire me to keep on. Maybe they will for you too.
Here’s to magic and miracles in 2020 and beyond.
Enjoy xxx
Continue, By Maya Angelou
My wish for you
Is that you continue
Continue
To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your acts of kindness
Continue
To allow humour to lighten the burden
Of your tender heart
Continue
In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter
Continue
To let your eloquence
Elevate the people to heights
They had only imagined
Continue
To remind the people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you
Continue
To remember your own young years
And look with favour upon the lost
And the least and the lonely
Continue
To put the mantle of your protection
Around the bodies of
The young and defenceless
Continue
To take the hand of the despised
And diseased and walk proudly with them In the high street
Some might see you and
Be encouraged to do likewise
Continue
To plant a public kiss of concern
On the cheek of the sick
And the aged and infirm
And count that as a
Natural action to be expected
Continue
To let gratitude be the pillow
Upon which you kneel to
Say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge
You build to overcome evil
And welcome good
Continue
To ignore no vision
Which comes to enlarge your range
And increase your spirit
Continue
To dare to love deeply
And risk everything
For the good thing
Continue
To float Happily in the sea of infinite substance
Which set aside riches for you
Before you had a name
Continue
And by doing so
You and your work
Will be able to continue
Eternally
“‘Suddenly’ miracles are made of quiet moments of faithfulness.”
Andrena Sawyer
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash
Blessed Be,
