Prayer for the Winter Solstice

Dear God, help me embrace the darkness of this day, knowing that from the very deepest dark comes the brightest Light.

Help me to feel my own darkness, where fear resides inside, within my wounded child who is scared of being on Earth.

With your love, I may use the darkness of nature on this day to hold my wounded child close to my breast, letting her tell me all of her fears.

She will tell me how I scare her; I will ask her to tell me how I abandon her.

I will use this darkness to let her cry; and with her final tear she will begin to sense the Light.

I will use this day to go to the depths of my own dark places because I know you are with me always, and that only by going into the darkness may we see the truth of our Light.

Thank you, God, for giving me life so that I may explore the darkness and the Light.

Thank you for the cycle of creation.

Thank you for my breath, my heart, my body and my mind.

Thank you for the Light of my soul, where, though I sometimes forget, I long to always be.

 

–Winter Solstice Prayer to the Inner Child, by Nancy Swisher