from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault
Sacred Servants: Evening Benedictions and Blessings

May you rest, knowing your grief tonight 

carries the essence of love, 

the prima materia from which 

new worlds are shaped.

May your heartbreak for this frightened planet 

be received as holy offering, 

your tears the rain 

for seeds sleeping in winter ground.

May you trust the deeper rhythm 

that shapes chaos into cosmos,
the ancient pattern working 

through your own tender heart.

May you cradle tonight 

both sorrow and possibility, 

Witness to what is breaking 

and what longs to be born.

May you sleep knowing that love’s labor 

is never lost, 

that what appears as ending 

serves beginnings you cannot yet see.

Amen.

— William Britten

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