Prayer for the blessing of the Light of God

 

        An Irish Blessing 

May the blessing of Light be on you -

light without and light within,

May the blessed sunlight shine on you

and warm your heart till it glows like

a great peat fire, so that the stranger

may come and warm himself at it, and

also a friend.

And may the light shine out of the two

eyes of you, like a candle set in two

windows of a house, bidding the wanderer

to come in out of the storm.

And may the blessing of the Rain be on you -

the soft sweet rain. May it fall upon your

spirit so that all the little flowers may

spring up, and shed their sweetness on the air.

And may the blessing of the Great Rains be on

you, may they beat upon your spirit and wash

it fair and clean, and leave there many a

shining pool where the blue of heaven shines,

and sometimes a star.

And may the blessing of the Earth be on you -

the great round earth; may you ever have a

kindly greeting for them you pass as you're

going along the roads.

May the earth be soft under you when you

rest upon it, tired at the end of the day, and may

it rest easy over you when, at the last, you lay

out under it;

May it rest so lightly over you, that your soul

may be out from under it quickly, and up, and

off, and on its way to God.

         *Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette in springtime Dublin, Ireland. 
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