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A Christmas Blessing

John O'Donohue blessing for a joyful and creative future with a background watercolour artwork by Anna Cull
| Anna Cull

My gift for you this Christmas is an excerpt from John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: A Book of Blessings. The background artwork is my own.

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and a joyful and creative New Year.

John O'Donohue blessing for a joyful and creative future with a background watercolour artwork by Anna Cull

“May my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.

May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer,
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.”

(excerpt from ‘A Morning Offering’ in Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue)

The Sound of Things

| Anna Cull

The Sound of Things — acrylic on canvas, 205 x 610 mm, 2019. SOLD

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

Hermann Hesse

Light and shade (and Happy Easter)

| Anna Cull

A Rose By Any Other Name — acrylic on canvas, 250 x 250 mm, 2019

“God bless our contradictions, those parts of us which seem out of character. Let us be boldly and gladly out of character. Let us be creatures of paradox and variety: creatures of contrast; of light and shade: creatures of faith. God be our constant. Let us step out of character into the unknown, to struggle and love and do what we will. Amen.”
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‘A Note on God’ by Michael Leunig