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  • Morning Poem by Mary Oliver.

    Morning Poem


    Every morning
    the world
    is created.
    Under the orange

    sticks of the sun
    the heaped
    ashes of the night
    turn into leaves again

    and fasten themselves to the high branches —
    and the ponds appear
    like black cloth
    on which are painted islands

    of summer lilies.
    If it is your nature
    to be happy
    you will swim away along the soft trails

    for hours, your imagination
    alighting everywhere.
    And if your spirit
    carries within it

    the thorn
    that is heavier than lead —
    if it's all you can do
    to keep on trudging —

    there is still
    somewhere deep within you
    a beast shouting that the earth
    is exactly what it wanted —

    each pond with its blazing lilies
    is a prayer heard and answered
    lavishly,
    every morning,

    whether or not
    you have ever dared to be happy,
    whether or not
    you have ever dared to pray.


    from Dream Work (1986) by Mary Oliver
    Wishing everyone a wonderful Sunday 🙂
    Love
    Sister Bridget

     

  • RITUAL TO THE AMAZING AND WONDERFUL SPIRIT DAMBALLAH – APRIL 19, 2012

    Please join us for a very special Spellmaker Spiritual Power Group Ritual. Anyone and everyone can join or participate completely anonymously in our online rituals. The rituals are done in real time, live online. You remain nameless and faceless and just enjoy the ritual in the comfort of your own home! Spellmaker offers these rituals free online via a webcam – you will not be seen, but you can see the ritual as it is happening. Your petitions can be included in this ritual whether you choose to join us or not! You may submit your request to prayforme@spellmaker.com. However, we do highly encourage you to join us as we do our powerful rituals online! Our next ritual will be to the powerful Vodou spirit, Damballah. Damballah is an awesome, amazing spirit of wisdom, strength, peace, life, renewal, ancestry, positivity, and much more. He can guide us, strengthen us, bring power to any situation, and generally enhance almost all situations! Please join us on Thursday, April 19,2012 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern for an amazing time.

    For further details, please check here.

    Love,

    Sister Bridget

  • Happy Friday the 13th!

    Happy Friday the 13th!

    Belief that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day is believed to be the most widespread superstition in the US.  According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in North Carolina, about 17 million people fear Friday the 13th.

    This year, there are THREE of them!   Each, exactly 13 weeks apart.

    Where did all of this fear stem from? It can be hard to tell. There is the basic idea that Friday is considered an unlucky day, and 13 is considered an unlucky number, put the two together, and you have a very unlucky day.

    Folklorists think the dread goes back at least a few centuries, and may well trace its roots all the way to Biblical times, when the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus and caused his Crucifixion, which was held on a Friday. Whatever the origin, by the late Middle Ages both Friday and the number 13 were considered bearers of misfortune. That potent combo, more than any specific association with the date, is what has deemed Friday the 13th unlucky.

    One study in the UK  showed that the actual amount of cars on the road was lower than normal, yet the accident rate was  much higher than normal.  Their conclusion – "Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home is recommended."

    Some folks believe this superstition to be hype and urban legend. Some folks choose to stay home and read a good book. However you choose to spend your Fridays the 13th this year, I wish you luck!

    Love

    Sister Bridget

  • Imbolc, Maman Brigitte, and St. Brigid – Oh My!

    Greetings one and all!

    As many of you may already know – tomorrow, February 2, is St. Brigid's day, Imbolc, Candlemas,
    and the Feast of St. Brigid.  To Vodouisants, Catholics, Pagans, and more, this is a wonderful day anticipating spring, looking for new love, and being ready to shed off the cold of winter.

    A popular prayer for this day is:

    "Blessed be the earth, and all who dwell upon it.

    We give thanks for the season now departing from us,
    For the blessings it has bestowed upon us,
    And upon those with whom we share this world.

    Blessed be the new season.
    We pray that it will be a time filled with peace,
    With abundance, with prosperity,
    With wisdom,
    With love."

    For Vodouisants, tonight, the eve of  St. Brigid's Day, is when we put a piece of clothing outside for Maman Brigitte to bless with her healing powers.  Take any piece of clothing, or even a scarf to tie your head with, and put it outside tonight.  Ask Maman Brigitte to walk your way tonight and bless that piece of clothing.  Light a small fire outside for a little while, even if you just burn a candle. Before you go to bed, burn the veve of Maman Brigitte in the fire. Then put that fire or candle out.  Make sure the wax is smoothed down  or that the ashes are smoothed down if you lit a small fire.  Any kind of mark or disturbance of the wax or ashes the next day is considered a sign that Maman was there and blessed your piece of clothing!

    Now you can wear that piece of clothing any time you aren't feeling well or you doing healing work or healing prayers for someone else.

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    There is a LOT more to this holiday/feast day!  It is well worth looking up more information.

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

     

     

  • Quote for today…..

    "We worry far too much about the minutiae of our struggles when we should be …looking for the pockets of hope and peace that are all around us, even during dark times."                      ~~~George Anderson

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  • New Service Available – Candle Burning by Mambo Sam and Parran Matt!

    Yes, it IS true!

    By popular demand, Mambo Sam and Parran Matt are now offering candle burning services!

    www.spellmaker.com/candleburn.htm

    Select your candle, and let Mambo and Parran know your goal! These services are offered only at the Mind, Body, Spirit level which is a very thorough and powerful approach! So, if you have been thinking about doing some candle work to help along your situation, but have not been able to find the time or the privacy to do such, your prayers have been answered. If you have been wondering how candle work might be able to assist in your life, please do write to your caseworker and ask 🙂

    Love,

    Sister Bridget

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    (this photo is of some candle work I was doing for myself. Once Mambo and Parran have completed your work, they will send you a picture of YOUR own candles burning during the service)

  • New Photo Album- Cooking with Mambo!

    Hi there!

    Happy New Year! I hope your new year is going well for one and all!

    I have created a new photo album of pictures I have taken during some of my kitchen adventures with Mambo Sam. I hope you enjoy them.

    Love

    Sister Bridget

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  • Prayer for September 11.

    Today is a somber day across the country. There are many memorials and acts of service going on today. I hope that we each can take some time to participate in any way we are capable.

    Blessings,

    Sister Bridget

    Hold on to what is good
    even if it is a handful of earth.
    Hold on to what you believe
    even if it is a tree which stands by itself
    Hold onto what you must do
    even if it is a long way from here.
    Hold on to life
    even when it is easier letting go.
    Hold on to my hand
    even when I have gone away from you.
    –Native American Prayer

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    We shall overcome
    We are not afraid
    We are not alone
    We shall overcome
    We shall overcome some day
    –spiritual hymn/Martin Luther King Jr.

     

  • Cookies are medicine!

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    I have suspected so for a while, but now I know it for a fact! Cookies are medicine! Well, not all cookies, but THESE cookies sure are, um, I mean were. This is a photo of some cookies made by and sent to me by my mother, Mambo Sam. These cookies were very very special, and they certainly helped me feel much better. Thank you, MaMere. You can see other photos of Mambo's yummy creations here.

    Love,

    Sister Bridget

  • New Photo Album.

    Hi there!

    Here is a new photo album I posted of some photos from my local cemetery. It may sound a bit weird, I know. But the cemetary is quite old, and has been active for more than 250 years! Stones and markers vary greatly, and I really found some of them interesting. This is something I have been wanting to do for a while, so I hope you enjoy!

    Love,

    Sister Bridget

    This photo is from HIghgate Cemetary in England, not where I live…I could not resist the dog on the stone. though.