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Everyday Blessing

Milking a Blessing

Use this ancient celtic prayer as an example of an everyday blessing.

 

Then After you read it, don’t be afraid to get out paper and pen and create your own blessing for one of the everyday activities of your day.

 

Let it be a prayer that brings the mundane back to life.

 

Milking Prayer from the Carmina Gadelica

 

Bless, O God, my little cow,

Bless , O God, My desire;

Bless Thou my Partnership

And the milking of my hands, O God.

Bless, O God, each teat,

Bless, O God, each finger;

Bless Thou each drop

That goes into my pitcher, O God!

 

Write your own everyday blessing as a prayer and bring yourself back to the presence of life.

 

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