For the New Day

Earth shrugs

Hold me Mother

May our initiations be received

With clarity and humble heart

May I be willing to lay down all that is not for my greatest good and the greater good for my earth home and community

May I be gently guided to return to my Sacred witness

May I greet the steps of my path with joy and invite my fellow travelers to share in my joy

May discipline be tempered with graceful rest

May I take the time to offer what is mine and to offer and be a channel for benevolent possibilities, in word, deed, and presence

May I learn more true appreciation and relationship with self and come to know and find oneness through knowing myself

May I find companionship with the light of great souls in body, benevolent and relevant seen and unseen,my well-ancestors, councils and guides.

I ask again for the arms of Mother, even in my great imagination, to hold me in these magnificent days that I have left on this earth,and what is, in infinite space and time

I also ask to be be pleasantly surprised with unexpected blessings and better than expected outcomes for me, the earth, and all of earth’s inhabitants big and small in this time and our path beyond

I ask all of this and more for myself, knowing that I am a part of the whole

With love,

Laura

My grandma and sisters about 68 years ago. I am far right

View of one of our gifts from my mom’s living room window, photo taken by Michael Craig