DECEMBER 15
Bless Thou to be mine eye.
May mine eye bless all it sees;
I will bless my neighbour,
May my neighbour bless me.
—CELTIC PRAYERHow we are all bound together—all in need of one another’s
blessing!
It might be helpful, as we wend our way through this day,
if we made a conscious effort to offer a silent blessing on
behalf of all the people we meet. It will surely do them no
harm, and it will help us approach them with a maximum
of understanding and good will.
And who knows—they may pick up from us the energy
of our thoughts toward them and respond to us with unusu-
al sensitivity and grace. (We can’t count on it, and if it
doesn’t happen, it won’t invalidate our impulse on their
behalf. At the least, the goodwill in the world will have gone
up by a few tiny increments!)
I will bless my neighbor. May my neighbor bless me.