I have noticed that several people have found the blog by searching for the New Year Blessing so I thought I would recycle this post. I also want to wish all of my readers a very Happy, Blessed, and Healthy New Year! Thank you for reading my words over the last year and also listening to my new podcast that was started this year.
I am off in a few minutes to a celebration of Hogmany and then back here latter on. Be safe today.
God, bless to me the new day,
never vouchsafed to me before;
it is to bless your own presence
you have given me this time, O God.
Bless to my eye,
may my eye bless all it sees;
I will bless my neighbor,
may my neighbor bless me.
God, give me a clean heart,
let me not from sight of your eye;
bless to me my family,
and bless to me my means.
Ancient Celtic Prayers collected by Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912), published in Carmina Gadelica (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1992). These are prayers, hymns, and incantations collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the 18th century.
