Summer Prayers

GREETINGS, FRIENDS!

As summer officially begins, the Church moves back into Ordinary Time. Now is an opportunity to take increased delight in our natural world, in our Father-figures, and in the ‘quotidian mysteries’ of our more ordinary days. 

Enjoy this prayer for June from Tess Ward's The Celtic Wheel of the Year: 

Praise to you Maker of the Summerland,

who sends the sunshine, bringing ease and light.

Praise for the outside days with doors and windows open, neighbors' music, children playing, racquet thwacking, when the birds sing out the pleasure of ordinary all through the day. 

You bring your balm as well, to those for whom the sun changes nothing, their struggles undiminished by windless warmth. 

For loving all under the sun, praise to you.

The blessings of God in ordinary time be upon me.

Blessings when I take a bath or take the bin out.

Blessing when I am doing nothing in particular.

Blessings on the little things that catch my eye.

Blessings on the quirkiness of the thoughts that belong to me that you alone know and love this day.

Amen.