To bless the space between us: a book of blessings

Beginnings

Matins

A morning offering

A blessing for the new year

In praise of fire

For a new beginning

For light

For the artist at the start of day

For a new home

For a new position

Desires

For eros

For freedom

For love in a time of conflict

A blessing of angels

For longing

In praise of air

For the senses

For presence

For friendship

For belonging

For absence

Thresholds

For your birthday

For the traveller

For a mother to be

For a new father

For a friend on the arrival of illness

At the threshold of womanhood

At the threshold of manhood

For the parents of one who has commited crime

For a parent on the death of a child

For old age

For death

To learn from animal being

In praise of water

Homecomings

As a child enters the world

In praise of the earth

For a mother

For a father

Grace before meals

Grace after meals

For a brother or a sister

On waking

On meeting a stranger

On passing a graveyard

To come home to yourself

At the end of the day : a mirror of questions

Before sleep

States of heart

For courage

For an exile

For solitude

For an addict

For failure

For grief

For the interim time

For beauty

For a prisoner

For suffering

For one who is exhausted

For equilibrium

For loneliness

Callings

For priesthood

For marriage

Elemental blessing for a new home

For the farmer

For a nurse

For the time of necessary decision

For the unknown self

For work

For one who holds power

For citizenship

For a leader

Axioms for wildness

Beyond endings

At the end of the year

The inner history of a day

For the family and friends of a suicide

For broken trust

For the break up of a relationship

For retirement

For someone awakening to the trauma of their past

On the death of the beloved

For someone who did you wrong

After a destructive encounter

For celebration

For lost friends

Entering death

For the dying

Vespers

To retrieve the lost art of blessing

The eyes of Jesus.