Prayer for the Mothers

Beloved Mother's Son,
Dancing One, you Love
Your Mother Earth so.
Bless the Mother, Lord.
Bless all Mothers.

Their work is hard, their burden great.
Bring them Laughter, Lord.
Bring them Lightness.
Bless the Mother, Lord.
Bless all Mothers.

Bring Wealth and Health
and Smiling Children,
who look upon them
as you look upon your own Mother.
Bless the Mother, Lord.
Bless all Mothers.

Bless the Mothers, Lord.
Bring them frith and laughter's fortitude,
Resilience and celebration.
Bless the Mother, Lord.
Bless all Mothers.

Beloved Mother's Son,
Dancing One, you Love
Your Mother Earth so.
Bless the Mother, Lord.
Bless all Mothers.




This is a prayer whose various stanzas may be repeated in refrain during a walk through a grove. Go out into a beautiful area of nature --- a park, your backyard, a garden, a place where life's resilience and fertility is palpable. Stand there and take in the green, and sunlight, and birdsong. Feel yourself a part of all of this. Take some time to just breathe it all in, breathing yourself out into it for blessings, and breathing back in again. Feeling Fro Ing, God-in-the-Garden, Lord of Green Things, Regeneration Lord, Lord of Laughter and Freedom, begin to walk about the grove, reciting this prayer as you walk. Leave, if you will, small offerings of seed or prepared leaves for his Friends, the Good Folk, or slowly pour out ale or milk, in a spirit of the gift. After the line, "Bless the Mother, Lord", and before "Bless all Mothers", feel free to say "Bless _______" and insert the name of your own Mother, or a woman close to you who is a Mother or Expecting Mother.