Winter Solstice

"God of all creation,
of bare forest and low northern skies,
of paths unknown and never taken,
of bramble, sparrow, and damp dark earth,
we thank you for loss, for the dimming of the year,
we thankyou for light, even in its seeming midwinter failing,
we thankyou for life, for its hope and resistence,
like a seed dying and living".
-Prayer from the Iona community-