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| We're a week past Samhain, the year's final harvest. The nights are longer and bedtime is very attractive.
Speak this nighttime blessing tonight-and all through the winter. As you say it, think about the blessings of the Pagan religion and the Pagan lifestyle, with its regular rituals and interesting mythologies. We don't pray to a god who will take our soul in the night. We pray to goddesses and gods (and possibly elementals and fairies and who knows who else-we're an independent bunch) who touch our lives with caring and tenderness while they also sometimes hand us challenges. We are highly fortunate folks. "Now I lay me down to sleep, Blessed Goddess, in your keep, Send sweet dreams the whole night through And keep me faithful, good, and true. And in the morn, when I awake, Gentle Goddess, feed me cake!" |
