New Beginnings
Blessings
Spirit of Life, bless us as we enter this new time,
and as we bless one another in peace.
In this time of hope we wish to affirm life for all.
We commit ourselves again
to bring your hope of freedom
to all who suffer despair.
Fill us with a thirst for your justice
and teach us to move beyond
reliance on empty promises and false hopes.
Spirit of Life, renew our vision of a different possibility,
a different world.
Open the eyes of those who are fed
to the cries of the hungry.
Move the hearts of those who are whole
to offer healing to those who suffer.
Turn our eyes inward and outward
to the beauties within and without.
Help us to care for your presence
in the sap-filled plants, in the soaring birds,
in the murmuring ocean,
in the gurgling streams with their families of fish,
and in our own hearts,
often broken sometimes healed.
Spirit of Life, renew our dreams.
Help us to attend to your voice
and to know your call amid all the others.
Repair our dreams for the future
when they have become ragged.
Bless all the women of the future,
and grant them loving and listening friends and family.
Open for them a way of peace
so that their children and their children's children
may receive an inheritance
of womanly grace and hope.
Amen, We Pray. Amen
(Hildegarde of Bingen)
From: Praying with the Women Mystics
Selected, compiled, and interpreted by Mary T. Malone
