One: A Blessing on you who are poor Many Yours is the household of God One A blessing on you who mourn Many: you shall be comforted
One: May God the World Maker bless you; Many: Let us delight in sunlight and starlight and surprises of the turning earth.
May the blessing of God go before you. May God’s grace and peace abound.
One: God of many names and faces, we have come together for a little while; some to worship, some to lay down burdens, some to find a moment of rest.
A responsive reading
One What is the sound that calls us? Listen carefully. Many The beating of our own hearts calls us to ourselves. It calls us to be our true selves, our best selves. Calls us to be what we might become.
Adapted from a Sufi poem
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.