Prayer a Day- November 24

The threshold holds no answers.It cannot tell me whether I should step through, what I might gain, what it might cost.The door may have no locks or manyor be riven open by some strange claws.Either way there is but one key,found in the flavor of a wordengraved upon the center of my being.Spirits of courage … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 24 →

Prayer a Day- November 23

As with any relationship, sometimes in our relationships with the godden we make mistakes or fail to follow through in ways that require efforts to restore trust and good will. Hence, a prayer to accompany a piacular offering:Cerridwen, Wise One, I would honor you in your many guises, stirring the depths from which wisdom is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 23 →

Prayer a Day- November 22

A prayer for my Mother:Books are gateways-to worlds, ideas, ways of being and of knowing.Books are people-new friends, old enemies, strangers whose speech we catch in snippets, tantalizing.And some books take on the patinaof the hearts that know them,of the hands that smoothed their pages,of the tears that wet them,a sea salted by longing for … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 22 →

Prayer a Day- November 21

Airmid, physician's daughter,whose grief nourished the seeds of our cure,I honor you.For the centeringIn the familiar rhythms of knife and whisk,In the way Rosemary rises to wrap me in her scent,In the unfurling tendrils of life through loam and sinew.I honor you.For the awakeningIn the sting of the Nettle on swollen joints,In the visioning of … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 21 →

Prayer a Day- November 20

Each year the dead are numberedWe speak their names in whispers, wails, songsWe keen them to the echoing dark, leaving foodAnd drinkAnd flames to light the wayAt the crossroads and thresholds, with murmured exhortations430 souls we mourn this night430 offerings we pourMay they find their pathsMay they find their godsMay they find their ancestors open-armed … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 20 →

Prayer a Day- November 19

A prayer to Inspiration:Inspiration carries us the most remarkable of places.We taste fruits left too long on the vine, calling out for the ones who grew them;Greet stories twisted beyond all recognition, passing themselves on the street like strangers;Carry the accounting of every word we do not speak engraved like fire in our hearts.Again and … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 19 →

Prayer a Day- November 17

Little living ones, you share my space, witnessing. You speak eloquently of being rooted, of gentle bounty, of drinking in what is life giving around us.I hear you, friends, grateful for the ways your lives touch mine and your simple needs form cornerstones on which to build the small joys of home.I thank you.Image is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 17 →

Prayer a Day- November 16

I smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Flame of my hearth, Flame of my heartI smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Still, it burns within.I smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Flame in my hearth, Flame in my heartI smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,As vigil reaches it’s end.Brighid, you … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 16 →

Prayer a Day- November 15

A prayer to begin a Flamekeeping vigil:I light this flame as my Ancestors lit it,Flame of my hearth, Flame of my heartI light this flame as my Ancestors lit it, Brighid, I invite you in.I light this flame as my Ancestors lit it,Flame in my hearth, Flame in my heartI light this flame as my … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 15 →

Prayer a Day- November 14

It is amazing how much “too much” and “never enough” so often entwine in our hearts… there are as many iterations of this as there are thoughts in our heads, sorrows on our shoulders, people in the world. For me, it is most often that I can never be enough to make up for all … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 14 →