Celtic Wisdom
Opening Song: I Arise Today (The Deer’s Cry) by Rita Connolly
Opening Prayer:
May the angels of light glisten for us this day
May the sparks of God’s beauty dance in the eyes of those we love.
May the universe be on fire with Presence for us this day.
May the sun’s rising, grace us with gratitude.
Let earth’s greenness shine and it’s waters breathe with Spirit.
Let heaven’s winds stir the soil of our soul and fresh awakenings rise within us.
May the almighty angels of light glisten in all things this day.
May they summon us to reverence.
May they call us to Life.
Reading: “It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.”
― John O'Donohue – Anam Cara
Song: Follow Your Hearts Desire (Jan Phillips) Video by MT Streck
Reading 2:
“In everyone's life, there is great need for an Anam Cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. This recognition is described in a beautiful line from Pablo Neruda: "You are like nobody since I love you." This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny.”
― John O'Donohue – Anam Cara
Anam Cara Poem by R.M. Wright
My Anam Cara, My Soul friend
My companion whom I have connected and bonded
Ours souls have entwined, our lives linked.
Our two souls flow together, as one,
Our lives now shared.
My Anam Cara, My Soul friend.
You accept me as I am,
My faults, my beauty, my light shines clear.
I too accept you as you are, as you will be,
As you were meant to be seen, radiant.
My Anam Cara, My Soul friend.
Our bond cuts across time and space,
Our tie cuts all conventions.
We are bound in an ancient and eternal way.
Your divine light flows to me and mine to you.
My Anam Cara, My Soul friend.
All my barriers are down, my protective walls collapse.
I have given you permission to know my inner most fears,
Desires and dreams.
You have shown me your most sacred place, your heart.
My Anam Cara, My Soul friend.
We are bound so that our friendship,
Has its own blessed space, indissoluble.
No interval of time or space can sever
Or destroy what even death cannot part.
Prayer of Petition: Leaning In: A Prayer of Intention by Christopher Grundy
Closing Prayer:
I lay my head to rest,
and in doing so,
lay at your feet
the faces I have seen,
the voices I have heard,
the words I have spoken,
the hands I have shaken,
the service I have given,
the joys I have shared,
the sorrows revealed,
I lay them at your feet,
and in doing so
lay my head to rest.
Closing Song: How Can I Keep From Singing sung by Judy Collins
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