Longing for the Eternal

"Our longing for the eternal kindles our imagination to bless. Regardless of
how we configure the eternal, the human heart continues to dream of a
state of wholeness, that place where everything comes together, where
loss will be made good, where blindness will transform into vision, where
damage will be made whole, where the clenched question will open in the
house of surprise, where the travails of life's journey will enjoy a
homecoming. To invoke a blessing is to call some of that wholeness upon
a person now."

- John O'Donohue, *To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings*