written by Emma Donohew - Winter Solstice - December 2019

This longest night of the year is here to offer you some stillness
Go on
Be still.

The days are grey
Fading quickly to black
The rain comes in sheets, drizzles and drips
Inviting all to retreat to different forms of shelter
The sun showing its colors in glimpses
Quickly hides behind clouds settling in for the cold

Winter is Arriving

But she comes with more than just dampness
To help you embrace this Blessing

The quickening sunrises
The early sunsets
Holy darkness fills in around us

The darkening nights allow us to find our inner light

You darkness
Offer us a chance to see anew
The possibility for rebirth of our light once more

Receive winters blessing
A gift to let go of the year and it’s unforgivable moments
A gift to remember all of its joy filled moments

Be Still and welcome the season’s darkness
Allow it to mark a threshold
A short day, but indeed a doorway into the unknown future
A future welcomed by nature and her rhythms of this solstice season

Let this blessing wiggle its way to you in your hibernation
Finding a way to pull the string on that heart light
To illuminate you deep from within

This blessing will be here all winter
Waiting in stillness

You people who have walked in darkness
Breath Deeply

May each day forward, you be blessed with more light
Amen.