Beloved friends, I have a new book! There is so much I want to say about it, even as I feel tender and have the impulse to be strangely quiet about releasing it. But I want to tell you that this new book of blessings turns toward the hard things that each of us knows: the grief, loss, fear, and weariness that we live with in these days. It also invites us to perceive what makes its home here, too: the joy, solace, grace, and, most of all, the love that moves through it all, illuminating and transforming what seems most hidden or hopeless.
From my heart to yours, this book welcomes us wherever we are, offers us a space of healing for as long as we need, and calls forth our courage, that our broken heart might become a path back into the world.
To keep turning your heart
toward this unendurable earth,
knowing your heart will break
but turning it still.
I tell you,
this is how the stars
get in your bones.
—From the blessing “How the Stars Get in Your Bones”
You can find the book here: janrichardson.com/books.
As we move into this Epiphany season, I am grateful beyond measure for you, and I am sending so many blessings.
