99 Blessings by David Steindl-Rast

Author:David Steindl-Rast [Steindl-Rast, Brother David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-34750-1
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2013-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

47

SOURCE OF ALL BLESSINGS,

you bless us with pipe-organ

music, with the sense of the

sacred it evokes in the Christian

tradition, be it played on a simple

tracker organ in a village church

or in a cathedral on an instrument

with ten thousand pipes. When

my heart is lifted by its lilting or

shaken by its thunder, may I never

miss the best part: the silence after

the last note.

48

SOURCE OF ALL BLESSINGS,

you bless us with Oriental

rugs—marvels of the

imagination, masterworks of

skillful fingers, though also mute

accusers of relentless toil. May I

walk on them as on holy ground in

reverence for the unknown laborers

who tied a thousand knots in every

stamp-sized area to conjure up

patterns of Paradise; and may the

beauty they created make me stand

up for the exploited.

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