Summer Solstice

Today, June 20, is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. Let’s celebrate the beginning of summer. Here are a couple of prayers/readings I hope you enjoy.

**Creator God
who breathed this world into being,
who is discernible within 
the harmony of nature, 
the perfection of a butterfly's wing,
the grandeur of a mountain range,
the soaring eagle and hummingbird,
thank you for this world
which you have created.
Thank you for summer sun,
which reminds us 
that your creative breath 
is still alive and active. 
Thank you for the warmth of your love, 
sustaining this world...

your garden

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{Creator God}
**Your creation
Rolled into a sphere
Packaged in sunshine
Gift-wrapped in love
Given to us
Thank you

**Found on: http://www.faithandworship.com/Prayers_Summer.htm

***For the first showings of the morning light
and the emerging outline of the day
thanks be to you, O God.
For the earth’s colors to be drawn forth by the sun
its brilliance piercing clouds of darkness
and shimmering through leaves and flowing waters
thanks be to you,
Show to me this day
amidst life’s dark streaks of wrong and suffering
the light that endures in every person.
Dispel the confusions that cling close to my soul
that I may see with eyes washed by your grace
that I may see myself and all people
with eyes cleansed by the freshness of the new day’s light.
                     ***Celtic Benediction by J. Philip Newell