~ Celtic Blessing ~

May the blessing of light be on you...
Light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
So that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,
Like a candle set in the window of a house,
Bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain be on you,
May it beat upon your Spirit and wash it fair and clean,
And leave there a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines,
And sometimes a star...
And may the blessing of the earth be on you,
Soft under your feet as you pass along the roads,
And soft under you as you lie out upon it,
Tired at the end of day.


"Aureole" by Sulamith Wulfing