This week I have written 'circling prayers' for a couple of friends facing unpleasant medical procedures, and they seem to have been appreciated.

I can recall posting about circling prayers before, so this is not the place to launch into a long explanation of what they are, just to note for anyone who doesn't know, that Celtic ciricling prayers involve imagining, or tracing with the hand whilst turning slowly, a circle around the person praying the prayer.

Today I feel that I want to pray such a prayer for my blog readers, encircling them in the love of the Sacred Three, or, for those for whom such concepts fail to hold meaning, then simply to circle them in Love...

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep hopefulness within and despair without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep wholeness within and brokenness without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep gentleness within and bitterness without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep courageousness within and abandonment without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep calmness within and restlessness without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep peacefulness within and vengefulness without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep contentedness within and discontent without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

Keep security within and terror without

Circle them, Sacred Three, with your love:

All people

All places

All creation

May circles of your love spread like ripples on a clear pond

Carrying with them blessing

To the very end of all things

Until they find their source and their end in you