It is hard to believe that so much time has passed since 9/11.

I can still remember so strongly all the emotions that were running through my heart.  I can still remember watching the towers fall.  I can still remember the hours of not taking a full deep breath, until my father (who worked on the floor of the Stock Exchange) finally walked in through our front door covered in dust and ash.

It was, and is, a reminder of how transient this mortal life can be.
It was, and is, a reminder of how none of us ever know which day is our last.

Blessings

Mama Kelly

Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings
and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children
and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion
and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening:
hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music,
memorize the words for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:
Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.

wage peace – judyth hill – september 12, 2001

Written by Mama KellyTags:9/11, peace, prayer

Our Mother who art all things,
Our Lady who art the moon, sun, and heavens,
Hallowed be thy name
By thy sovereignty of the sacred land,
Thy divine will be done
On Earth as it is in all realms
Give us this day our daily bread
Bless and guide us, Great Goddess
And protect us from all harm and evil
For thine is the power, beauty, and love
Forever, and a day. Ayea!

Sirona Knight

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Oh Goddess Mother,
You are the mystery of Night,
Your radiant shine is the Day,
Infinite realms cascade within You,
Abundance is Your essence of Being,
Blessings flow from You Limitlessly,
Your Universe is harmony and tension in Balance,
Within each of us, You are Alive.

Abby Willowroot

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Mother/Father
Source
I come

my mind
beats like
a restless
drum

from You
I flow
back to
I go

teach me
what to
forget

& know.

conrad levasseur

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Mother,
You are the soul of the Earth.
You are the drops of rain on a Spring Morning.
You are the cold silence of falling snow.
You envelope all life in your Life.

gaian prayer – jason clark
from worldprayers.org

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Goddess of the hearth, beat strong and pure in the heart of my home.
Lord of the threshold, keep vigilant guard over the entrance to my home.
Spirits of the land, keep watch throughout the yard of my home.
God of the borders, stand ready to repulse all disorder from my home.

- Ceisiwr Serith

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer

Today I am grateful for the gift of Lady Rose in my life. 

Today I am grateful, though at the same time a bit sad, for our decision to forgo Womongathering this year as I had no idea how I was going to afford either the festival itself or the time off from work.

Today I am grateful that Lady Rose & I have decided instead to have a girls weekend, probably at her house, around that time. 

Today I am grateful, as always, for having a job, for food on my table, and for healthy children.

Blessings

Mama Kelly

PS We’re having another giveaway

Written by Mama KellyTags:gratitude, prayer

I pray today to the Lady of Fire,
great Brighid, Triple Goddess.
There is someone here who needs you,
someone who is sick.

I ask you
to bring your healing flame,
the warmth of life, into him,
burning away
all that is making him sick,
that I might always have cause to praise you.

Ceisiwr Serith
“A Book of Pagan Prayer” © 2002

Written by Mama KellyTags:prayer