A prayer for a new year's eve:
On the threshold,
Look,
just look:
keep your eyes open, even as the hours and days
continue to change around you
- challenge become opportunity become gauntlet become grace -
grace upon grace.
may you allow yourself to be transformed
by play, by hope,
and even by the strange wholeness hidden within what
irrevocably breaks.
may your dreams, work, possibility and desire
call you deeper into the world,
into the nexus where human souls
graciously meet.
May your mind be widened by the Friend's
holy surprises,
by the Spirit's delightful soul-nudges.
and when you find yourself standing where all things turn,
may the tensions bless you
may the tensions bless you
and may a joyous creation greet you at every dawn.
on
the
threshold,
May we know the blessing of letting go and the sacredness of memory, peace at our beginnings and peace at our endings.
May welcome find us, even as we open our arms to take the world in.
May hope be the song that excites our steps for the journey
and love be the voice that calls us home.
and love be the voice that calls us home.
The Parting Glass performed by the Wailin' Jennys
May it be so for you and yours.
-Anna and Lindsey
No comments:
Post a Comment