Good night blessings for a gentle fragrance of remembering.

May the hush of night deepen the glimmer already stirring in your souls—
that light which asks only for presence.
May you hold the world of “common sense” lightly in your palm,
and with your other hand, reach for what cannot be named
but is known.

Let the voices of routine and reason grow still.
May you hear the rustle of the hidden wood,
just beyond the hedge of habit.
For even in the suburbs of modern life,
the sacred still breathes beneath the paving stones.

As you rest side by side,
may you be granted the courage to see the light,
and the grace to recognize it in each other.
For this path—the secret path—asks only
for faithful seeing.

Let tonight be a gentle unfolding,
a fragrance of not forgetting,
of remembering who you have always been:
two souls listening together for the whisper
beneath the world’s noise.

Amen.

— William Britten

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Logion 24
His students said to him,
“Take us to the place where you are,
since we are required to seek after it.”
He answered them,
“Whoever has an ear for this should listen carefully!
Light shines out from the center of a being of light
and illuminates the whole cosmos.
Whoever fails to become light is a source of darkness.”

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Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.

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