Earth Perihelion-Day Earth is Closest to the Sun

Ancient Sun, eternally young,

giver of life and source of energy,

In coal and oil, in plant and wind and tide,

in spiritual light and human embrace,

You kindle the heavens, you shine within us

(for we are suns with hearts afire -

we light the world as you light the sky

and find clouds within whose shadows are dark),

We give thanks for your rays, and clouds our rays draw up,

for the sky route you travel faithfully as we traverse this globe,

For our journeys of earth which draw us together,

for our journeys of dream which sustains us when apart.

Ancient of Days, you rule the nations,

our birth and death: our journeys you have wrought.

Loam we become for your fertile spirit.

Your cosmic light penetrates our depths;

In your majesty we are bound to one another.

We gather this morning as did people of old

with joys and woes, varied gifts and diverse needs.

We off you these in thanksgiving for life

and share them through your generations of earth.

~Congregation of Abraxas~

Perihelion:  The point nearest the sun in the orbit

of a planet or other celestial body.