A Blessing

After many months, today I finished reading "Apprentice: Walking the Way of Christ" by Steve Chalke with Joanna Wyld.  So it's like a chalke talk with a wyld woman.  (Sorry about that.)  There was much to consider in the book on how to really walk the Way of Christ.  The book ends with this:

As Jesus said in Luke 6:40, 'Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.'


May God bless you with discomfort
at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial
    relationships
so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of 
    people,
so that you may work for justice, freedom, 
    and peace.
May God bless you with tears
to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection,
    hunger and war
so that you may reach out your hand to
    comfort them and
to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough
    foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference in
    the world,
so that you can do what others claim cannot
    be done
to bring justice and kindness to all our children
    and the poor.
Amen.


(an old Franciscan blessing)