A Blessing for Our Shadows*Holy One who embraces all,help us to grow in intimacy with the shadow parts of ourselves: the shame, the resentment, the too-bigness, the longings for things that seem out of reach, all that we resist and reject and project onto others. Reveal to us your sacred welcome to everything that feels tender and troubledall that we would rather not face. Bless our vision so that we might discoverthe brilliance hidden in our darkest places,show us the treasure that lies withinso that we might becomethe fullest version of ourselves,integrated, whole, textured, and sometimes tangled. Help us claim

A Blessing for the Underworld Journey*Holy One who is ever-present,even in our darkest nights anddescents to the underworld, bless us with a felt sense of your abidingas life strips away all our comfortsand securities, everything we thought we needed. Help us to build our enduranceand strengthen our vision to see you shimmering in the night. It is so hard to stay here,we want to run to brighter fields, to numb ourselves to the anguish,bless us even in the running and numbing,and help to guide us back to presence,to the call of this journey, which is to move through,to let it