Save This Blessing

Save This Blessing 
Rev. Margaret Ernst 

save this blessing for when you most need it. 
for loneliness. 
for fear. 
save this blessing for exhaustion. 
for anxiety. 
for crisis. 
save this blessing 
for when you feel torn between worlds 
between longings 
for when you’re caught in the crossfire 
and when you feel you cannot breathe. 

save this blessing for when the world you are birthing 
with your bare hands 
is not coming fast enough. 

most importantly: 
save this blessing 
for when you think the last thing you deserve is a blessing. 
for when the right words are not coming. 
for when you want to quit. 
and when the work feels like it’s never enough and that it will not save you. 

save it because this blessing refuses to believe the worst things you say about yourself 
or the worst things anyone has ever said to you. 
and refuses to let either have the final word. 

this blessing will not try to fix you. 
or silence you. 
or make you into something you are not. 
it will not whisper false hope 
or have the answers. 
but it will breathe by your side. 
here is what this blessing knows: 
that you are needed that your people need you. 
and that if you haven’t found your people yet 
or lose them 
they can always be regrown

in other words, 
let this blessing be a safe house. 
let it be a dream 
let it be laughs that slip through the cracks. 
let it be dancing. 
let it be another start. 
let it be the tap on your shoulder 
helping you remember 
you do not have to do anything 
alone.