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Mayan Prayer for Unity
In the name of the Heart of the Heavens;
Heart of the Earth, thank you. Let the Spirit of our Ancestors,
our Grand Mothers and Grand Fathers, be here today.
Brothers and Sisters of all colors, holding hands around the
planet, we are one, like the fingers of one hand. Let us reflect
on this, let us meditate and pray in our own way, in our own
language, according to our own culture or religion, because
we have only one Sun to shine upon us equally, one air that
we breathe and give us life, one water that we drink and becomes
blood in our veins, and we all live on our one Mother Earth.
She feeds us, she holds us. Brothers and Sisters of all colors,
together united we ask to be guided on the good path, to give
us good thinking, strengthen our hearts and our faith, strengthen
the conscience of the governors of our communities and of
our nations. Illuminate us, so there can be Life for our children
and our children's children.
We are one, like the fingers of one hand. We are the ones
of yesterday. We are the ones of today.
Thank you Heart of the Heavens. Thank you Heart of the Earth.
Medcine Stories
Adopted by River Spirit
by Angela Blessing
While visiting the riverside one afternoon to dip my feet between prayer ceremonies at the 1000 Hummingbirds Gathering earlier this year, I completely fell into the river head-first! Ironically I chose to carefully wade in at a spot that looked like the gentlest slope in the riverbank. However, as I reached my toe into the water's edge, reaching, reaching, feeling for the muddy ledge that I would step out onto, I literally fell into the moving water, unable to even touch the bottom! Nearly being swept away in the late-spring current, I threw my arms up on the riverbank and called to my friends for help...thinking to myself, "Okay, I got Baptized!" Help was there instantly, and I, rather ungracefully, clawed my way back ashore.
"This was a water ceremony after all", I chuckled to myself as I lay my drenched body, fully clothed, to dry in the sun. Warm breezes caressed, and birds flitted here and there. Touched by Her spirit and Her water, the River began to speak to me from the quiet of the natural world I observed...
She began to reveal to me how Water truly IS the Rainbow Bridge; How the very same water that glistened on my arms, may have been the same water in a Grizzly Bear's exhale 200 years ago in Canada, or a splattered raindrop in a tropical storm back in Paleolithic Times! The cold clean waters that pass through the dark granite underground caverns, or swirl in the Gulf of Mexico right now are not only all connected energetically, but are literally the SAME water, throughout all time as well. So, we not only share water with every living thing and living system from every corner of this planet, but share the same water of our Ancestors and will hopefully create future Rainbows for our Children's Children.
Wow. It was a stunning revelation for me, the poetry of it all, the magnificent design of Creation and Life. How could water not be Sacred to humanity? And how could I not do everything in my power to protect and care for the systems that cleanse, replenish, and regenerate life-giving Water? Water is magic in motion, a rainbow bridge connecting us to All Life, a record of information-energy since the beginning...
What story will it tell about Us?
I had a bit of Tobacco, and I got up and stood at the water's edge to make a Prayer offering of gratitude. Instead what happened was I found myself being "adopted" by the River. In that moment I knew, She took me as her willing daughter and I vowed to protect Her, the Waters, and the Natural World, even at the cost of my convenience or comforts. That sacrifice was okay, that this is the most important endeavor of my Life. It was a promise that has changed me forever.
I am now Her humble student, and I have much to learn.
**May we all pray every day for guidance on how we can be better stewards of this Garden, and Students of Nature**
Links
Chief Oren R. Lyons
Speaking to a room of CEO's long before the BP Oil Spill occurred. Contains references to Hopi Prophecies AND HAS POWERFUL WISDOM. Please pass along, and more to come...link below:
"The Seas Will turn to Black"
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