Season’s End, Season’s Beginning

Greetings, Yoga Friends,

Our first Autumn session is coming to a close.  Thank you for your willingness and bravery.  Without you, I’d have no one to practice with ~ so thank you for committing, for trying, for showing up, and for getting us all out of the house, lest we stagnate and shrivel up to nothing!

The new schedule and class offerings for Winter 2014 will be posted soon.

I wish you a slow-moving Advent with time and energy as you prepare your hearts and homes for the Love that was, is, and is to come.

Happy practicing!

The Catholic Yogi

 

Prayer on the Feast of St. Nicholas

Lord of miracles,

Open my eyes that I might see
the beauty and goodness of your world,
and open my eyes to the ways we have marred its beauty.
Open my eyes to the beauty and goodness of all your people,
and open my eyes to all the ways we exploit, wound, and kill each other.
Open my eyes to my own sinfulness,
that I may repent and live your life of compassion
and forgiveness a bit more deeply.
Open my eyes to the needs of the people around me.
Open my eyes to all the ways you come to me today.
Open my eyes to all the signs of love and kindness
others give to me today.
Open my eyes to all the signs of your coming in this Advent season.
Open my eyes to all the ways
I can be a sign of your coming in my work today.
Open my life, Lord, to this wonderful, graced world,
and the signs of your coming kingdom.
Open my eyes always, Lord, to your presence around me and in me.

Amen.

~Reposted from livingwithchrist.us.
(A prayer for today from an Orthodox Hymn to Saint Nicholas.)