March Prayers | Of New Life
“See! The winter is past, the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth, the season of singing has come,
the cooing of dove is heard in our land.”
Dear friends,
While many of you still have mounds of snow, this month marks the return of spring for us in the Northern Hemisphere.
Find a warm ray of sunlight or just a hot drink, sit with this prayer and poem and song, and let the Lord’s loving gaze rest upon you. Be comforted that God sees us, all that has been shoved in the cold hidden places, and still loves us.
Spring is coming!
the view from Christy’s art studio
Return of the Light - A Morning Prayer
Blessed be you Light of Life,
source of the sacred flame within each of us,
light which the darkness cannot put out.
I rise up with you this day.
Praise to you for the crisp sunshine that lengthens our days and bids the bulbs peep through.
Draw us closer to the warmth of your love, as we long to emerge from the dark winter casing, but fear the exposure to your watchful eye.
For the dark is no darkness to you, the night as clear as the day.
Praise to you for seeing and still loving.
Beloved One who gives me life and tends my growth, keep my face turned toward the light.
As your countenance shines upon me warm me with your blessing and draw me onwards as I set out this day.
-Tess Ward, The Celtic Wheel of the Year
Spring Song
And just when you’ve completely forgotten what it feels like to be warmed, to feel sunlight’s gossamer shimmer your skin,
to smell the earth yield to new life…
Just when you can’t even imagine such a world ever existed within the one you now inhabit, grey-dulled by the too-long winter months…
You hear the distant rise of the peepers’ mud-song.
And your body awakens to memories lodged down deep: that scent of gentle green shoots; that sudden sight of yellow from muted mossiness; the prickling on your skin by southern breeze.
And before you know it, you’ve completely forgotten what it felt like to be cold-lorn all those long dark nights.
-Christy Yates