An Irish Blessing

May the blessing of light be with you

light outside and light within.

May sunlight shine upon you and warm your heart

til it glows like a peat fire

so that the stranger may come and warm

himself by it.

May a blessing light shine out of your two eyes

like a candle set in two windows of a house,

bidding the wanderer to come out of the storm.

May you ever give a kindly greeting to those whom

you pass as you go along roads.

May the blessing of rain - the sweet soft rain- fall

upon you so that little flowers may spring up to

shed their sweetness in the air.

May the blessing of the earth - the good, rich earth

be with you.

May the earth be soft under you when you

rest upon it, tired at the end of the day.

May earth rest so lightly over you that your spirit

may be out from under it quickly, and up and

off, and on its way to God.