Peace be with you

A poem by the Rev. Donna Wall
St. John, Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Peace be with you in this place of confusion and sadness.
Peace be with you in your brokenness,
Peace be with you in your hoping,
Peace be with you in your examination,
Peace be with you in your reconciling and in your learning.

Peace be with you in weariness,
Peace be with you in bewilderment and anger.
Peace be with you in your pain and your dis-abled places,
Peace be with you in your struggles and jealousies and insecurities.

Peace be with your demons,
may they rest from their torment and sit quietly in another room.
Peace to your clutching and clamoring and scrambling and places of dis-ease.

Peace to the trauma and to the raging pain.
Peace to the cyclone of terror that threatens
to dislodge all goodness from you.

Peace to joy,
Peace to wonder,
Peace to awe.
Peace to rest.
Peace, peace, peace, beloveds.

Dawna Wall, 2024