Roads

Today let us give thanks for roads
Roads that carry us through country-sides of fields and forests, along coast-lines, past castles and cows, homes and harvests,
That meander through mountains, cut across plains,
Take us to towns, guide us through cities,
Roads that foster connections, taking us out into the world and bringing us back home.

Let us also give thanks for our inner roads of heart and mind and spirit,
That weave and wind through our interior landscapes,
Connecting heart and soul and body, opening new directions,
Leading us to a fuller knowledge and appreciation of our personal worlds.

And let’s give thanks for the roads of relationship we build in the fabric of our lives,
With friends and fir-trees and food,
Work and water,
With cushions and cashiers and clouds,
Sunshine and strawberries,
Tea cups and tables,
With bathrooms, and books, and blackbirds on our lawns.

We are road-makers and road-travellers.
May all our roads, inner and outer,
Lead us into loving our world,
And bring us safely and surely home to ourselves.

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As we move into our morning, let’s bless the roads we will travel and make today.

Poem by Mary Inglis.

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