Blessings and Benedictions are a way we can wish each other well, bestow good upon another and ourselves, invoke health, wealth, beauty or other blessings. It is a form of grace that we can give to each other, a meal, an enterprise, a home, our pets, our children, and all that we are involved with. Please share here your favorite blessings and benedictions.
A Blessing *******
Child of Light, I bless you! I think of you, I pray for you, not in terms of what I think you need or what I think you should do or be or express. I lift up my thought about you. I catch a new vision of you. I see you as a child of light... Child of Light, I bless you.
A Twist on an old favorite benediction
Praise Her from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Her all creatures here below,
Praise Her above ye Heavenly Host,
Praise Mother, Daughter, Holy Ghost.
May the blessing of Love rest upon us,
May Love's peace abide within,
May Love's presence illuminate our hearts,
Now and forevermore.
The Collect for Purity
Almightie God,
unto whom all hartes bee open,
and all desyres knowen,
and from whom no secretes are hid:
clense the thoughtes of our hartes,
by the inspiracion of thy holy spirite:
that we may perfectly love thee,
and worthely magnifie thy holy name:
through Christ our Lorde.
Amen.
--from Thomas Cranmer's 1549 version from the "Book of Common Prayer"
I pray for the love in my heart
to embrace every person I know,
relatives, friends, acquaintances,
people I have spoken to and
worked with, and made love to,
and given birth to, and had
arguments with, and haven't
spoken to in years, and who
have passed on before me.
I pray for the love that is me
to hug all of YOU in my heart
until I feel that the warmth of
my love has held you dearly.
Thank you Beloved,
may my heart be as wide as the ocean.
--Karren Hoyt
Hail Mary, Mother of God,
Hail Mary, Queen of Heaven,
Heavenly Father, Holy Mother,
Bless me and keep me safe in Your Way. Amen
Discourse on Lovingkindness
Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.
--Buddha