The Blessing of Emmaus - the Third Day

⁹ And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.¹⁰God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed—bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. ¹²The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

The Blessing of Emmaus


Blessed be the path of the shoreline
Of thrift and cordgrass
The betwixt path of sea and sand
The path of waxing and waning



Blessed be the path of the meadow
Of wheatgrass and poppies
The tiller's path seeking a harvest
The path of the gatherer and the gleaner


Blessed be the path of the mountain
Of gentians and gorse
The goatherd's path of vision 
The path of precipice and ascent


Blessed be the path of the desert
of mallow and milkweed
The solitary's path of denial
The path of encounter and sacrifice


There are no wrong paths
only the path 
where you do not invite God
to walk beside you.


Blessed be




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Blessing of the First Day

Blessings for the Octave of Easter

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Blessing of the First Day

Loving Father,

We have suffered in the night of the tomb

We have waited in the emptiness of evening

We have rejoiced in the morning of the Resurrection

When, again, you gave us your Son

Word of God,

Speak again of your love for us

Form us in the image of the Father's desire

Let your Light tend the spark of our souls
May we never be parted from you

 Spirit of God,

 hover over the depths of the waters
Blaze out over the lengths of the earth

Go before us in our life's journey 
Each morning as the first day.


Amen


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Visual prayer at Word in the Hand - for some reason it won't embed here.