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 →

Prayer a Day- November 13

Today I am graniteSun warmed, stubbornly aliveHarboring strange and clinging grassesShelter to the nimbleAs the waters pour over and through meTeaching me to know my ownever-changing shapes in the worlds.I am gratefulFor the heights and depths sounding in meFor the relationships that situate my lifeFor the opportunity to nourish the lives of others.Solid, I stand.Solid, … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 13 →

Prayer a Day- November 12

Peals like bells in the shadowed glens of my secret selfspeaking jubilantly of transformationand the lustrating fires of your forgeBrighid, I am gratefulfor the time between, for the quenching waters of your healing well flowing within meEven as the quiet voice of my own heartlongs for the invitation inherent in the crucibleof relationship with self, … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 12 →

Prayer a Day- November 11

I honor you, sweet and healing honey.Your depths transport me to the mountainous woods from which you come,awakening the reverberation of some distant drum behind my breastbone,of stalwart Earth embracing my spine.You made welcome my Allies,Musty, rooted Chamomile,Woody, redolent Lavender,Truly cordial, enlivening a heart weighted by sorrowNourishing all that lies within.I thank you for your … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 11 →

Prayer a Day- November 9

I see in myself those things I rebuke in others:The lack of compassion,The dismissal of what lives between our words,The impatience with those who just don't understand as I think they should.Ogma, I pray you turn the light of your countenance upon me that my bias may be illuminated.Help me to champion right-action justly through … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 9 →