Saturday, January 30, 2021

Morning Coffee

See also the previous posts:
Morning Coffee (2020)
Morning Coffee (2019)
Morning Coffee (2018)
Morning Coffee (2017)

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.


Saturday, January 16, 2021

Winter Rider

Image: Phoebe Capelle.

See also the previous posts:
Faeries
Light-Bearer
Winter Hare

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Friday, January 1, 2021

For a New Day . . . and a New Year

Compassionate Creator,
Thank you for this new day,
its beauty, light, and possibilities.
Thank you for the chance to begin again,
free from the limitations of yesterday.

Today may I be reborn.
May I become more fully
a reflection of your radiance
and an embodiment
of your transforming love.

Give me strength and compassion.
Show me the light within myself and others.
Help me recognize the good that is available everywhere.

May I be, this day, an instrument
of love and healing.
Lead me in your ways
so that I may know life in abundance.
Ground me in a constant awareness of your presence
so that I may know and embody
your peace, wisdom, and courage.

Amen.


Adapted by Michael Bayly from a prayer by Marianne Williamson
in her book, Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage (1994)


See also the previous posts:
For the New Year
Morning Light – January 1, 2013
Love
Morning Light XLV
Reevaluation in the Gay Man’s Quest for Authenticity
Day 1 of the “7 Days of Sweat Challenge”

And at The Leveret’s brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
A Blessing for the New Year (2020)
A Blessing for the New Year (2019)
Anew
Move Us, Loving God
Prayer of the Week – August 3, 2015
Prayer and the Experience of God in an Ever-Unfolding Universe
The Prayer Tree

Image: The Leveret.