This blessing acknowledges that in the southern end of the Northern Hemisphere, some areas are moving into a summer semi-dormancy, where the weather becomes too hot for many food crops, but helps nourish citrus, pineapples, and sugarcane (things harvested in winter or early spring in the Northern Hemisphere). Other areas are emerging from a full dormancy where outside of greenhouses, sprout jars, and windowsills, fresh produce is just returning with first radishes, asparagus, dandelion greens, watercress, and fiddleheads.
Breath of Being, may we bless this table of spring’s renewal, this season of sprouting, leafing out, rooting down, drinking in rain and cloaking ourselves in fog. As the seasons shift, may we shift with them, aligned with the earth’s bounty where we are. If emerging from dormancy, finishing the winter stores and welcoming the first bright greens and ferns of spring. If heading towards dormancy, may we finish putting up into sauces and pickles and frozen treats the winter abundance season to carry us until cooler weather. As the plants root and leaf more vigorously, as the sun warms the land, may we also nurture our relationships with the earth where we live, the farmers and food producers around us, and this interdependent network of vitality to which we all belong. May we set our tables with gladness, with bright colors and spring fragrances, and make welcome to one another and this new and renewing season. Amen.
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