A Blessing to Ease Loneliness and Bring Companionship: This is a blessing for when we find ourselves without those touchstones of our humanity – our friends and companions.
A period of loneliness – quite different to solitude – can take place for many reasons. We can move away, or lives can change and be reshaped, and suddenly the space we found for each other has been closed off or absorbed by others. Sometimes we isolate ourselves, unwilling to be a burden to any others. And some are born into shyness and paralyzing social anxieties, that make the seeking of friendships a terrifying thing.
This blessing is for you, when you feel alone. Let there be that call, that note, that memory that comes forth to remind you of your innate worthiness. Let there be that smile from a stranger, or touch from a kind hand, that lets you know your humanity is the same as theirs, and you have about you connections that can be rewoven. Let other gentle hands pick up and do the reweaving when you find yourself unable to perform the task, and let serendipity come to you, guiding you to chance meetings, or places where music plays, and people move, and the gathering is undemanding of you, yet surrounds you with the quality of inclusion. Let the loneliness begin to break, like clouds slowly moving apart, and the great heaviness of isolation begin to be lightened by loving companions, humans, and otherwise, until you return to a place where you know you have within your life those who care for you, and without your presence, their life seems less bright.
Blessed Be
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A Blessing to Heal a Relationship: A blessing to aid you when a relationship seems to be a struggle, and you cannot find a way to mend your torn heart.
This blessing is yours, a charge of energy with which you can reweave the threads that once gently held you in suspended relationship. Once there was understanding and intimacy, ease and comfort, but for a while now there may have been trouble and discord, a sense of displeasure that stains the day, making the time you spend together uncomfortable and self-conscious. So, take now this blessing, and pour it upon the troubled waters between you.
Where there is an uneasiness, let the expression of what causes this to be found, and if it be found within each other, let a gentle disentanglement begin, until the source is discovered and is cured, without strain and blame. Let your hands reach out one to the other and feel the warmth of your humanity pulsing through the blood underneath the skin, until the comfort of each other heals the coldness that has come between you. Let you begin to speak from the heart, flowing and strong, even if the voice that sends the words forth seems to choke within your throat at first. Let understanding begin to glimmer and grow, and the willingness to give, and the openness to receive, be explored. Until the hearts that lie within you both open up and bloom within the new care and tenderness with which you agree to hold each other’s most cherished dreams and hopes. Let words, soft and true, fall between you, until you begin to trust, and arise from the bed of nails that you have each slept in since this disharmony came between you.
Blessed Be
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A Blessing on Your Love: A blessing on the discovery of the affinity of one soul for another.
May the fragile beginnings of love between you bring to life qualities within you that will be your soul’s true calling. May the sweetness of the taste of lips that kiss yours be matched by the kindness and patience you find for each other. May the darker times that beset all companions of the heart teach you what to hold on to, and what to open your hands to easefully let go of. May the embrace of each other’s arms become a sanctuary from the world, yet not keep you from it. Instead, may this love send you back to the world restored, whole, eager for the knowing of it, and when you return to each other, may there be space for both to share and learn of what shaped you that day.
Let passion be long-lived, let your spirit’s flame be both tended and stoked by the other, and may you be a friend of the soul, a bringer of laughter, and a light in the time when shadows gather and fall. If you should leave, one before the other, or choose to go, let it be without lies or mistrust, let it be the natural order of things that your love burned brief and bright. But if it is right for this love to endure into the years far beyond, let it be good, and enriching, and solace itself for your years as an elder. Let this love be your light, and may it guide you well, warm you always, and help you see all more clearly.
Blessed Be
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