Liturgy for Prayer
Beads
with thanks to Donald
Engstrom and the
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Void of Dark, the womb that gestates a universe of light.
You are the silence of the vacuum and the Nothing by which we recognize Being.
Out of you we have come; to you shall we return.
Blessed art thou, O Void of Dark.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Mind of Air, the fresh breeze that blows distraction away.
You are the keen edge of a blade and the clarity of the very first moment of dawn.
On your currents we rise to discern Being’s pattern.
Blessed art thou, O Mind of Air.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Soul of Fire, the thrust of desire that allows us to act.
You are the passion that warms from within and the white-hot beam of a focused will.
From the flames of your pyre we arise renewed.
Blessed art thou, O Soul of Fire.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Heart of Water, the cup of blessing that ever runs over.
You are the rain that washes us clean and the ebb and flow of the ocean’s tide.
In you is all our love, as well as our pain.
Blessed art thou, O Heart of Water.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Body of Earth, the solid ground upon which we build.
You are the cradle of all that lives, the land from which we eat our fill.
From your abundance we learn pleasure and generosity.
Blessed art thou, O Body of Earth.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Truth of Light, the luminance cast by a conscious mind.
You are the eternal Word made flesh and the voice from the dark that first said "I."
By your power to name we self-create.
Blessed art thou, O Truth of Light.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Blessed art thou, O Mystery of Spirit, You who forever make all things new.
You are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end; it is you that we attain at the end of desire.
In creation itself we see your face.
Blessed art thou, O Mystery of Spirit.
Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being,
In your Name I dare to dwell in beauty, balance, and delight.
Partially adapted from
777
directions, copyright © 2002 by Christine Hoff Kraemer