In the light and reverence of blessing, a person or situation becomes illuminated in a completely new way. As John explores a range of themes relating to the way we live our lives tod… December 12, 2012. . John O'Donohue POETRY: For A New Home, by John O'Donohue. "It's a very subtle thing" as one friend reminded me. This morning, reading John O'Donohue, I learned a slightly different take on this idea of liminal space. There's a word that we don't hear everyday. Love is the threshold where divine and human presence ebb and flow into each other. John O'Donohue | Soul Gatherings The mind of time is hard to read. . Blessing a Cultural Threshold. John O'Donohue tried to help us beyond our "childish" ways toward a more mature spirituality of truth, life, unity and peace. John O'Donohue "Thresholds" - The Wisdom Years BEautiful Stacy… I love John O'Donohue's work… he was an amazing human being. Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, is a luminous book about art and life by the late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue. "We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us From To Bless the Space Between Us, pp. "Unless you allow your soul onto that threshold, where the old can fall away and . Monday, March 16, 2020 Thresholds by John O'Donohue A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms and atmospheres. A threshold is not simply a boundary, but it is a frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. Fall from your shoulders. John O'Donohue on Time - The Anthology . (photo: chuck Gibbons) We can never predict what it will bring, Nor even from all that is already gone Can we say what form it finally takes; For time gathers its moments secretly. Meanings of 'Threshold' From Beauty Is an Edge of Becoming by Krista Tippett and John O'Donohue: "If you go back to the etymology of the word 'threshold,' it comes from 'threshing,' which is to separate the grain from the husk. You know it could not be other than it is. On Winter Solstice - Myth & Moor Thresholds — Knox United Church Calgary When the light around you lessens And your thoughts darken until Your body feels fear turn Cold as a stone inside, When you find yourself bereft Of any belief in yourself And all you unknowingly Leaned on has fallen, When one voice commands Your whole heart, And it is raven dark, Steady yourself and see That it is .