A Celtic Prayer for Advent

A CELTIC PRAYER FOR ADVENT

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.

Raindrops on leaf

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.

Walking on the beach

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.