For a New Beginning

 

FOR A NEW BEGINNING
by John O’Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Still

 

Still, still, still,

And in the stilness, breathe

The breath of life, the breath of light,

Breathe it all in and let out a sigh

And in the release, find peace

Calling, calling, calling

 

HEAR ME CALLING
Mother Earth, hear me calling
I’m your daughter,
You’re my home

Sister Moon, hear me calling
In the night
We’re not alone

Father Sun, hear me calling
Let your strong light
Shine in me
All my ancestors

Stand by me
Teach my Spirit to be free. . .

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ELEMENTALS
Where I sit is Holy
The Wheel goes round
Where I sit is holy,
Holy is the ground,
Forest, Mountain, River,
Listen to the  Sound.
Great Spirit circle  all around me.
Air moves us, Fire transforms,
Water shapes us, Earth Heals us.
And the balance of the Wheel goes
round and round.
And the balance of  the Wheel goes round.

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ALL SEEDS
by Lauren Liebling, Starhawk

All seeds She deeply buries,
 She weaves the thread of seasons
Her secret, darkness carries,
 She loves beyond all reason.

All sleeping seeds She wakens,
The rainbow is Her token;
Now winter's power is taken,
In love all chains are broken.
Everything lost is found again,
in a new form, in a new way;
Everything hurt is healed again,
 In a new time, in a new day.

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ANGELS OF HEALING
Lisa Thiel  1986
Blessed angels come be with me
Heal my spirit, mind and body.
Blessed angels of green and gold
Heal my heart and heal my soul.
Blessed angels of violet and blue
Open my eyes to the vision of truth.

Cantico delle creature

 

Cantico delle creature ( San Francesco d'Assisi)

«Altissimo, Onnipotente Buon Signore, tue sono le lodi, la gloria, l'onore e ogni benedizione.

A te solo, o Altissimo, si addicono e nessun uomo è degno di menzionarti.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, insieme a tutte le creature, specialmente per il signor fratello sole, il quale è la luce del giorno, e tu tramite lui ci dai la luce. E lui è bello e raggiante con grande splendore: te, o Altissimo, simboleggia.

Lodato sii, o mio Signore, per sorella luna e le stelle: in cielo le hai create, chiare preziose e belle.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per fratello vento, e per l'aria e per il cielo; per quello nuvoloso e per quello sereno, per ogni stagione tramite la quale alle creature dai vita.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per sorella acqua, la quale è molto utile e umile, preziosa e pura.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per fratello fuoco, attraverso il quale illumini la notte. Egli è bello, giocondo, robusto e forte.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per nostra sorella madre terra, la quale ci dà nutrimento e ci mantiene: produce diversi frutti, con fiori variopinti ed erba.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per quelli che perdonano in nome del tuo amore, e sopportano malattie e sofferenze.

Beati quelli che le sopporteranno serenamente, perché dall'Altissimo saranno premiati.

Lodato sii, mio Signore, per la nostra sorella morte corporale, dalla quale nessun essere umano può scappare; guai a quelli che moriranno mentre sono in peccato mortale.

Beati quelli che troveranno la morte mentre stanno rispettando le tue volontà. In questo caso la morte spirituale non procurerà loro alcun male.

Lodate e benedite il mio Signore, ringraziatelo e servitelo con grande umiltà.»

Sweet, gentle, fading

 

Sweet, gentle, fading me,

Hardened, softened, cotton haired,

Dreamy, soft, broken, flee,

Wakened, battered, abused, recovered,

Reinventing, refreshing, starting anew.

All things considered, all things done;

The adventures, our life, my being with you.

Sweet, gentle, you, my only one.

Canticle 6 by May Sarton

 

CANTICLE 6

by May Sarton

Alone one is never lonely: the spirit
              adventures, waking
In a quiet garden, in a cool house, abiding single there;
The spirit adventures in sleep, the sweet thirst-slaking
When only the moon’s reflection touches the wild hair.
There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone:
It finds a lovely certainty in the evening and the morning.
It is only where two have come together bone against bone
That those alonenesses take place, when, without warning
The sky opens over their heads to an infinite hole in space;
It is only turning at night to a lover that one learns
He is set apart like a star forever and that sleeping face
(For whom the heart has cried, for whom the frail hand burns)
Is swung out in the night alone, so luminous and still,
The waking spirit attends, the loving spirit gazes
Without communion, without touch, and comes to know at last
Out of a silence only and never when the body blazes
That love is present, that always burns alone, however steadfast.