{"id":64083,"date":"2026-09-16T07:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64083"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:29:06","slug":"a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64083","title":{"rendered":"A New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Paul:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Blessing for a New Home<\/div>\n
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“May this house shelter your life.<\/div>\n
When you come in home here,<\/div>\n
May all the weight of the world<\/div>\n
Fall from your shoulders.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May this home be a place of discovery,<\/div>\n
Where the possibilities that sleep<\/div>\n
In the clay of your soul can emerge<\/div>\n
To deepen and refine your vision<\/div>\n
For all that is yet to come to birth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May it be a house of courage,<\/div>\n
Where healing and growth are loved,<\/div>\n
Where dignity and forgiveness prevail;<\/div>\n
A home where patience and spirit is prized,<\/div>\n
And the sight of the destination is never lost<\/div>\n
Though the journey be difficult and slow.<\/div>\n
May there be great delight around this hearth.<\/div>\n
May it be a house of welcome<\/div>\n
For the broken and diminished.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May you have the eyes to see<\/div>\n
That no visitor arrives without a gift<\/div>\n
And no guest leaves without a blessing.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– John O’Donohue<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Paul: \u00a0Blessing for a New Home “May this house shelter your life. When you come in home here, May all the weight of the world Fall from your shoulders. May this home be a place of discovery, Where the possibilities that sleep In the clay of your soul can emerge To deepen and refine … Continue reading A New Home<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4407,4421,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-brothers","category-elk-run","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64084,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions\/64084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}