Morning Verse
We are visiting our family in San Francisco to celebrate our youngest granddaughter’s 5th birthday. Yesterday when she came home from school she recited the morning verse that the children say each day at her kindergarten. (It’s a Waldorf school.)
This is our house, so good and so strong. With windows, a bright yellow door and the floor made out of wood.
Come in my neighbors, and come in my friends, I greet you most kindly and I give you my hands.
Good morning to everybody and good morning to everyone.
We greet you merry sunshine, you chase the night away.
Good morning happy children.
Let’s work and sing and play!
Morning has come, night is away, we rise with the sun to welcome the day.
Down is the earth, up is the sky. There are my friends and here am I.
When the sun sends down its glow, children, animals and flowers grow.
With love that the sun does give, light and warmth that all may live.
My own heart is like a sun giving light to everyone. Lovingly it shall unfold, opening out its shining gold.
May everything we do and say be kind and strong and true, oh golden sun like you.
Good morning dear earth, good morning dear sun, good morning dear stones and flowers everyone.
Good morning dear beasts and the birds in the tree.
Good morning to you.
Good morning to me.
Imagine a world where we all heard children sharing this message each morning. That’s a world I want to live in.
Posted 8 November 2024 by Mark ·
