Prayer or meditation
Christmas eve blessing
May your higher self be with you even in the blue moments
May all that you are willing to be, be with you
May guidance be sought
May you be willing to engage in all that this guidance shows
May you recognise the birth of new light
May the Spirit of Love come to your
Solstice sunset blessing
May I be open in my heart before the shortest day
May I welcome this night
May I bow forwards
May I receive all that came before me
May I be shown renewal in order to renew
May I connect to All That Is
May I give thanks
May I be willing to be a
And we call it Christmas
And we call it Christmas yet where is Christ?
So we have no workhouses, let’s take homelessness and food banks.
So we have freedom of expression and thought, let’s take mental and sexual and psychological torment.
So we have this fabulous increase in wealth, let’s take a local inequality and make it a global inequality
Christmas will come
This first appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8049
https://www.inquirer.org.uk/pages/
Christmas will come.
When the nights are so long that even the day is dark,
and the world’s balloon is a fugitive from the sky,
when hope seeps out of our collective life like breath,
like the wind punched from a downed fighter,
Christmas will come.
Christmas
Christmas prayer
The birth of the Christmas child bears the message of hope that there can be joy and peace and goodwill. At Christmas time we can allow ourselves to believe in angels, and wise men and shepherds, and the whole night sky filled with the music of rejoicing. Let our religion be the religion of
Humanity still hopes at Christmas
This reading originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8001, https://www.inquirer.org.uk/pages/