Possibilites Galore For 2011 New Year's Blessing

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Oh, my Dear Sweet Loves
New Years Eve is upon us!

Opportunity knocks.
Sit, listen to the sound of your Breath
Grounding toward Your Desires
For this coming Year.

Have you taken time to reflect?
What Passions are calling to you?
Are the seeds of your Dreams ready to be watered?
What have you done to close the doors that no longer serve you?

Let us Wash the slate, dust out the Cobwebs;
As the Sun sets we can release the old,
Creating Space for the New, the unknown.
Opening!
To the Mornings Light.

Let us align ourselves in Compassion,
Toward all Life.
May we be guided to Respect,
Those we presently call our Enemies.
Closing cycles of Fear and Hatred.
We Welcome 2011!

Let us Open our Hearts,
Hearing from this Sacred place.
May we learn to Listen,
Hearing our story in others voices.
Closing cycles of Self-Righteousness.
We Welcome 2011!

Let us Invite Love,
Being Present to the moments,
Not basing our reactions on Hurts of the Past.
May we be guided to our Truth.
Opening a cycle of Compassion and Kindness.
We Welcome 2011!

Let us Cultivate Communication
Clear, Honest
RE-membering that we are all One,
Opening a cycle of Peace.
We welcome 2011!

Let us Pray
In Gratitude,
In our Sorrow.
May our voices Ring out in shared Song,
With different tunes.
Opening a cycle of Tolerance.
We welcome 2011!

May we see the Abundance,
The Magic and Mystery.
May we be guided to our Highest Potent.
May we Honour our Gifts.
Share with those less fortunate.
May we Laugh, more then we Cry.
May we Sing out in Gratitude and Wonder.
YES, indeed we welcome 2011!
Come 2011, come Play with us, Be with us
Teach us the ways of Possibilities and Opportunity.

We sit these last hours with 2010
We give Thanks to all that we have learned~
The Growth, both Sorrowful and Joyful!
We Thank you 2010 ~ Good night.
We Welcome 2011, a New Day, a New Year.
We are Grateful for this New Moment in our Lives.
Welcome 2011.

Holding the Intention for All that what you desire brings great Joy. May Your Year be most Prosperous and Bright. Wishing you the Ordinary turned Extraordinary, Have a Healthy Year!




Photo by T.Griffin Sunrise - Gold Camp Road, Front Range CO.

On Wings of Our Love - Homeward

Oh, Divine Universe
A simple request for those we Love
The New Stars shining in the Evening Sky.
Guide them in their moment of Surprise,
Their newness that is an oldness.

No longer is there a need for them to Breathe
No longer may they feel us hold them.
Let them feel our Love Surround them,
As we weep, singing of who they are, now were
May this become the Wings of Love,
That carry them Homeward.

Oh, Divine Universe
In your Grace,
We Sing, Love, Live
This cycle of Returning and Re-membering
Guide our friends, these Bright New Stars
On Wings of Our Love
Homeward.

Oh, Divine Universe
Your arms held wide to Hold them
Guide us also in our time of Sorrow
A friend, their last breath, gone.
Your great Compassion.
On Wings of Our Love,
They come Homeward.






All my love to Mary L and friends of Jim Daniels
You will be missed.
Photo of Crow taken by Tirzah Griffin http://www.flickr.com/photos/tirzymcwirzy/

Hope blooms

Great Goddess,
Sweet Mother Earth,
In my struggle and sorrow,
You guide me in beauty.
I am most grateful.

Great Goddess,
Sweet Mother Earth,
I am honoured by your belief in me.
My eyes open to the wonder surrounding me.

Great Goddess,
Sweet Mother Earth,
I feel your waking,
Smell it in my growth.
See it in the Hope that blooms.

Great Goddess,
Sweet Mother Earth,
Hold and guide me in sorrow,
Teach me to keep an open Heart.
Let me not lose the path of Love.





Photo taken 6 March ’10 at a friend’s house
Plant is Winter Aconite, part of the buttercup family

Blessing for the Old and the New

Great Spirit, we stand today
A thin veil between the passing year
Awaiting the coming new.

To add to this great Mystery of turning calendar pages
Great Spirit, you have gifted us a Blue Moon.
Something that comes usually but once a year.
To this is added a sky wonder of a Lunar Eclipse.
Reminding us there is much old business to attend.

Great Spirit, Father Time, guide us with Courage,
That we may look at what no longer serves us,
Us as singular beings and US as collective beings.
Guide us toward the highest good.
May we be grateful for the teachings of this past year,
Some bringing sorrow, others joy and laughter.

Great Spirit, Father Time, guide us with Hope and Open Hearts,
For there is much wonder and mystery before us.
Teach us the ways of looking behind for the growth,
Not in anger and hurt.
Teach and guide us that Love, Peace, and Compassion
Are the path.
Guide us with and in Kindness.

Great Spirit, Father Time,
We are children coming to the party
This eve, full of excitement for what may be;
Guide us to hold that place of excitement and awe
A place that has no expectations.
All is Mystery and Wonder.
Father Time, we thank you for this last year
With all that we lived.
We look forwarded to the new image of you as a baby.
How wonderful to be reminded that sometimes, something dies
For the new to come in to being.
Thank you Great Spirit, Father Time
May the New Year bring Prosperity, Health and Love
To all.

Stumble and Fall...

Creator Mother
Guide me,
To understand my obstacles,
That they may show me a gentler way to be.
When I stumble and fall,
It is not that I am failing,
I have tripped because my eyes were shut.
Allow my heart to open to all.
Invite my emotions to be true to the moment.
Not some long ago hurt or situation.

Creator Mother,
Soften the words of anger against myself,
For when I am kinder to myself,
I find my kindness flows like a river.
Guide me to use what is no longer needed by me
To create a loving space for others.
Help me to create a community of caring.

Creator Mother,
Teach me the ways of being alone.
Warp your love around me, when I am lonely.
I have learned these two spaces are different.
It is the lonely that I struggle with.
Teach me to be gentle here,
That I can move forward with compassion.

Creator Mother,
Help me to be there for friend and enemy when
We stumble and fall.
We are all your children, all in need of love.
Guide me in love.
I give Thanks for this day.





photo taken at the studio of Naked Earth.
Thank you DKG.

Gift of Community

Grandfather Grandmother

Thank you for the gift of community!

I am blessed

Thank you for teaching me to share.

Grandfather, Grandmother

Your lesson of Love, of Spirit -

Thank you!

Great Spirit,

Thank you for the gift of community

I am blessed.

Your deep teachings help to guide me

Through out my days.

Thank you, Great Spirit

Thank you for my Life

I am blessed!

Tribe, Community

Thank you for your Love.

I thank you for the teachings you have shared

The Honesty of sharing hopes, dreams and fears.

The gentle pushes you have given.

Thank you Community, my Clan

I am Blessed.

I thank you.

Thank you for the photo of my hand and drum,

Debbie K. Graul.

The Day after the LOVE

Great Creator

Might you answer me why

We seem not to be able to

Hold on to the LOVE

That seems to come pouring forth

On the Fourteenth day of the second Month?

Why, Great Creator

Do we not know how to trust

That we are the LOVE we wish to SEE?

Just as we are the CHANGE we desire in the world?

Oh, Great Creator

Teach us how to be good

Teach us how to LOVE,

Teach us that we are all in deed part of the whole

Part and Parcel of the ONE

Oh, Great Creator

Help me to know and be this LOVE!

Thank you for the LOVE you are in me!

Valentine's Day

Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong; but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things,
believes all things,
Hopes all things, endures all things.

from Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians

Today I ask that you guide me
With Love toward all my fellow humans
I want to be able to hold each person
I touch to know Love
To feel that which is their Divine right
As your children, as children made from the very dust of the Stars
Guide me today toward that end.