Saturday, December 18, 2010

A Prayer of Restoration to Mother Earth

Out of all the things I could have written about after weeks of partisan rhetoric and discord in Washington and around the world, this prayer was sent to me by a friend. In times of trouble, strife and fear, what better thing than to pray? And what better prayer than one that resonates with my Cherokee ancestry:



Prayer of restoration to Mother Earth (Chief Iktomi Sha)
prayed at the peace ceremony, Ieper (Belgium), 19th December 2010

We pray,
Mother Earth,
Forgive us,
Not only for the innocent blood we have spilled and let flown on you,
since the beginnings of time,
but also forgive us, for the dark secrets we have concealed and hidden in your lap,
since the beginnings of time.

We ask that the spirits and the souls of all who have been judged, tortured or killed,
in the name of forced beliefs or for any other reason,
that their spirits and souls may be freed,
and be free to go to their families in the spirit world, to their homelands.
That this may bring peace in the hearts of their relatives.

We ask the spirits of all who have gone before who have been silenced, suppressed or destroyed
in the name of power or forced beliefs,
we ask that their spirits, from this moment forward, may become strongly active to bring renewal,
that they may bring us back in contact with pure divine energy, with the pure essence of spirituality.

This renewal will help all people on earth to restore the balance that is necessary for all of us,
and for our children of the next seven generations and after.
It will allow the children of our children to live in harmony and wholeness, with a good heart.

We are all related.

Let it be.

May we all pray for this divided nation of ours, our leaders and our future leaders and for the world in which we now live. We can continue with our hatred, fear, mistrust, ignorance, prejudice and anger or we can realize that in the end… “We are all related.” We are one. And what we do to each other and to the World… we do to ourselves. Peace.

Food for THOUGHT…





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