As I go through the day,
Keep my eyes open wide.
May I see beauty.
May I see joy.
May I see wonder.
Keep me awake and aware of the world.
A Book of Pagan Prayer
Ceisiwr Serith
This prayer is one I say pretty much daily, whenever my pain is not too great that I can perform my dawn prayers and meditation.
Pain leads to restless nights which means an extra hour or so sleep in the morning is necessary to then be my best self for work, so I don’t manage every dawn currently.
This practice of seeing the world through the lens of beauty, joy, and wonder is one I have been mindful of since chemo – it is, in fact part of what has sustained me through a slow and difficult recovery.
I am very focused on healing prayers at the moment. I have people undergoing surgery, people grieving, people navigating their own experience of cancer and treatment and other chronic and / or acute illness.
I am also navigating another experience of my own, even as tomorrow is the two year anniversary of my first cancer diagnosis. At some stage, I will share more about what is currently going on, but I’m not currently ready to do so. I will hasten to add it’s not cancer, because that’s the first thing I thought too!
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