May you be blessed with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and love deep within your heart.
May you be blessed with holy anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may tirelessly work for justice, freedom, and peace among all people.
May you be blessed with the gift of tears to shed with those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, or the loss of all that they cherish, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and transform their pain into joy.
May you be blessed with enough foolishness to believe that you can really make a difference in this world, so that you are able, with grace, to do what others claim cannot be done.—AMEN.
(“A Four-Fold Benedictine Blessing” by Ruth Marlene Fox, OSB)
