Cry Freedom

A blessing for the eve of the new year

I took this photo on Christmas morning. Today is December 31st, New Year’s Eve, of course, and also the seventh day of Christmas. It’s the perfect day to share a blessing I wrote this fall:

Take back the song,
it’s yours to sing.
Hold tight to the love
you carried.
Nourish kindness,
starving all that’s false.

Let them inherit the ashes
to which they cling,
if they insist.
Bearing no ill will, only
the possibilities of liberty.

Heaven help us,
love lead us
into freedom and truth
given without cost
and still
hard-won and holy.