Toward A New Dawn
Five Prayers for the New Year
Prayer 1
One of my treasured resource books is Prayers for Healing. Since we are at the beginning of New Year 2010, I’ve chosen 5 prayers for use this week; may you be blessed with enough as the year unfolds – season by season, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.
“A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
“Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture,
Still, treat each guest honorably.
The Holy One may be clearing you out for some new delight.
“The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent
As a guide from beyond.”
Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks
--Ben Keckler
01.11.10
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