Readings
Humanity still hopes at Christmas
This reading originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8001, https://www.inquirer.org.uk/pages/
Catching equinox
Listen to the darkness approaching
Experience her bounty before us
Equinox catching.
Shower in changing colours of the real
Leave behind exactly as she shows you how to
Equinox catching.
Breathe in preparation of reflection of pause
Open your arms to pollinate all our future imaginations and hopes
Equinox catching.
This preparation is for a
Mabon journey
A light moving to the dark
This thankfulness in a harvest held
Yet a restlessness
May your Mabon journey balance.
Your harvest gratitude is welcome
Give blessings away to a food bank or a passing stranger
Give away on your Mabon journey.
Pick some food
Count your blessings
On your knees in humility and love
Autumn Equinox can you help me?
Before me is this darkness
Before me is this light
And after me too
Autumn Equinox can you help me
decide what to do?
I can be beside myself in darkness
And beside myself in light
Yet somehow joyful too
Autumn Equinox can you help me
decide which is right?
This breath tastes a day of equal
Lammas, Lughnasadh
Here’s a harvest hope
That this thankful thing
For food and Earth and life;
Becomes a gratitude thing
Not for now, or for us
But for everybody and everything.
May Lammas Blessings be the wish
May Lughnasadh be truly fresh
In gratitude for what we are given
And attitude of what we can give
Of loving
The ongoing quest
We gather this morning to share a particular kind of community – a community of faith in which each of us is free to quest for our own ways of being spiritual and religious.
We gather this morning to think about how we have done this until now, and how we might do this from now.
We
A prayer to the cosmic christ
O you who animate the universe
You who are mother and father to us all
You who give us the blessing of life
You who live inside us and without
May we learn to see You in creation
And may we find in this a comfort
And a celebration.
May we find a name for you