“English” language resources
Idyllic beaches break the waves, a hymn relating to migration and asylum – sadly still pertinent..
Tune: KINGSFOLD
This appears as a suggested hymn in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
From Andrew Pratt: “These images will not be diminished by persecuting migrants, nor by making a false distinction between those seeking asylum and so called economic migrants. We need to welcome as fellow human beings people coming to our shores who
The coming days
This appears as the Benediction in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
God of our hearts,
Bless us as we part.
Be with us as we face
the quandaries, fears and puzzles of the coming days.
Send your peace among us,
And through all our troubled world.
May it be so.
Amen.
Earth blessings
The Earth –
Soil feels in your hands
As life itself
Blessed Earth thank you
May we remember Earth
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Air –
This breath in your lungs
As life itself
Blessed Air thank you
May we remember Air
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Sun –
This heat and light
As
Solstice blessings
May this moment hold you in gratitude
May your breath be an expression of thanks
May the risen sun be a guidance
May a togetherness take root as the core of your being
May a lovingness be everything you are finally seeing
May Solstice Blessings be the forever opening heart we are all invited to be.
Winter solstice blessing
Solstice, thank you
For providing goodness
Respecting pain
Oh humanity oh Earth!
Solstice rebirth
And ecstatic unity
Humanity and planet together
At solstice.
The light stretching
Open your mind to the light lengthening before you now
Prepare for guidance and gift
Form where the wind blows, caresses and ceases
As the rains dampen and sustain
Where the sun revolves allowing our evolution
Beyond every horizon
Of soil and ocean
I am in the light that stretches my journey from here
Into
The longest darkness
The longest darkness holds the shortest day
In the clasp of our future illumination
A necessary settling into the winter of becoming
Into a time of remembering
We welcome you into our winter heart
With the mist of your breath
And any snow soon to begin
Even the storms
We rest here on the shortest
These lengthening days of darkness
A lengthening darkness eases us towards the perfection of the shortest day
Lengthening darkness for some brings agitation – almost dismay
Lengthening darkness is everywhere preparation
The lengthening darkness is the adornment of All That Is
The shedded leaf
The burrowed hole
The future relief
For each humbled soul
Be humble as each day shortens and darkness broadens across