In my reading from Celtic Daily Prayer today, I read this:
Being an adult involves carrying a load of responsibilities of our very own, burdens with nobody else’s name on them but ours, with each one of us bearing an unwritten biography whose chapters contain unheard of turns of fortune and unheralded feats of heroism.
Ted Dunne
And this …
Be open to the night…
Pray with open hand, not with clenched fist…
Shapes loom out of the darkness, uncertain and unclear: but the hooded stranger on horseback emerging from the mist need not be assumed to be the bearer of ill…
The night is large and full of wonders…
Lord Dunsany
Five Short Words 