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Blessings for a leader

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Because the people have clearly chosen the persons to lead the country, the provinces, the towns and cities, I share here words from Benedictus, A Book of Blessings written by John O’Donohue of Celtic origin. This is especially dedicated to our own local leaders in this beloved island of Negros.

For a Leader
 

May you have the grace and wisdom
to act kindly, learning
to distinguish between what is
personal and what is not.

May you be hospitable to criticism.

May you act not from arrogance but out of service.

May you work on yourself,
building up and refining the ways of your mind.

May those who work for you know
you see and respect them.

May you learn to cultivate the art of presence
in order to engage with those who meet you.

When someone fails or disappoints you,
may the graciousness with which you engage
be their stairway to renewal and refinement.

May you treasure the gifts of the mind
through reading and creative thinking
so that you continue as a servant of the frontier,
where the new will draw its enrichment from the old,
and you never become a functionary.

May you know the wisdom of deep listening,
the healing of wholesome words,
the encouragement of the appreciative gaze
the decorum of held dignity,
the springtime edge of the bleak question.

May you have a mind that loves frontiers
so that you can evoke the bright fields
that lie beyond the view of the regular eye.

May you have good friends
to mirror your blind spots.

May leadership be for you
a true adventure of growth.

To those who read these Blessings, may you share the same thoughts so that it may pave the way for transformation doing away with greed, violence, self service, environmental degradation, and create instead spaces for hope, peace, unity, and true abundance.

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