“May the Angels in their beauty bless you.
May they turn toward you streams of blessing.
May the Angel of Awakening stir your heart
To come alive to the eternal within you,
To all the invitations that quietly surround you.”
~ John O’Donohue (To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings)
Happy Second Day of Christmas — the day that Eastern Orthodox Christians link with the ‘Synaxis of the Theotokos’, or ‘Mother of God’, honoring Mother Mary for delivering the Christ Child into the world.
May the Spirit of the Season surround you, embrace you, and fill you, and go before you and make clear and straight your way.
An invitation for you: Add your ‘mojo’ to help create a Blessing Wave to begin the new calendar year …
Choose a date (or two or three) and add your good wish, blessing, or bit of inspiration to the ‘Blog Blesstival” — learn more about it in this Sophia’s Children post.
Sow and reap the ‘good medicine’ of ‘blessing’ (it’s an energy art, too).
Blog Blesstival – Help Start the Year with a Wave of Blessing
(You can participate via your blog, web site, or Facebook … you’ll find the details at the Blesstival link).
Much Agape (a.k.a. Big Love),
December 26, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Beautiful poem and image. I am celebrating Christmas in my native Poland, where the cult of Mary is unbelievably strong. It is in my blood.
Season’s blessings to you.
Monika
December 26, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Oh, very beautiful, Monika. It seemed that the Mary (and Sophian) traditions stayed more strongly present in Eastern Europe than they did in the Western monastic tradition. But She’s there, as we know. So beautiful that it’s “in your blood” as you say! Holy Days blessings to you as well, Jamie
December 28, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Thank you for your Blessings Jamie.. and I count them everyone.. 🙂 wishing you the start of another beautiful week and wishing you a very Blessed Happy New Year for 2016 and Beyond
Love Sue <3
December 29, 2015 at 4:14 pm
You’re welcome, Sue. 🙂 I count the blessings (and, like you, appreciate every one … and know just how much each one helps to counter and alchemize the not-so-helpful juju that’s wafting about!). xoxo and happy season and 2016 to you, too. xoxo Love, Jamie
December 28, 2015 at 6:01 pm
This was lovely Jamie <3
December 29, 2015 at 4:14 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it, too, Sindy. xoxo and happy season. Love, Jamie
December 29, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Thanks sister <3