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<p>Blessing in the Chaos</p>
<p> To all that is chaotic<br>
in you,<br>
let there come silence.</p>
<p> Let there be<br>
a calming<br>
of the clamoring,<br>
a stilling<br>
of the voices that<br>
have laid their claim<br>
on you,<br>
that have made their<br>
home in you,</p>
<p> that go with you<br>
even to the<br>
holy places<br>
but will not<br>
let you rest,<br>
will not let you<br>
hear your life<br>
with wholeness<br>
or feel the grace<br>
that fashioned you.</p>
<p> Let what distracts you<br>
cease.<br>
Let what divides you<br>
cease.<br>
Let there come an end<br>
to what diminishes<br>
and demeans,<br>
and let depart<br>
all that keeps you<br>
in its cage.</p>
<p> Let there be<br>
an opening<br>
into the quiet<br>
that lies beneath<br>
the chaos,<br>
where you find<br>
the peace<br>
you did not think<br>
possible<br>
and see what shimmers<br>
within the storm.</p>
<p> - Jan Richardson<br>
from The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief</p>
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"
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
― Moshe ben Maimon, Moses Maimonides the Rambam
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
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