Earth Prayer

O Great Spirit

Whose voice I hear in the winds,

and whose breath gives life to all the world,

hear me! I am small and weak, I need your strength

and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand the things

you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every

leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,

but to fight my greatest enemy-myself.

Make me always ready to come to you with clean

hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,

my spirit may come to you without shame.

Traditional Native American Prayer

Translated by Sioux Chief Yellow Hawk

Prayer for Healing the Earth

We join with the earth and each other.

To bring new lifed to the land

To restore the waters

To refresh the air

We join with the earth and with each other.

To renew the forests

To care fore the plants

To protect the creatures

We join with the earth and with each other.

To celebrate the seas

To rejoice in the sunlight

To sing the song of the stars

We join with the earth and with each other.

To recreate the human community

To poromote justice and peace

To remember our children

We join with the earth and with each other.

We join together as many and diverse expressions

of one loving mystery for the healing of the

earth and the renewal of all life.

U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program

We are finally on the right track. For thousands of years, Native peoples the world round, have known and continue to know the nurturing force of mother earth. Some of them flourished living as givers and partners in this worldwide web of life, and some continue to do so still. They have recognize the necessity to leave only your footprint, and nothing else-to give back to the earth when they receive.  We all can do this.

We are, as a society, beginning to make the changes necessary to live with her in harmony rather than against her. On this global earth day make one change in your life to renew this planet. It can be as simple as switching your recycled napkins to cloth ones, recycling your newspaper, turning out the lights and using candlelight at dinner time. Make a lifestyle change in honor of this majestic planet that we are fortunate enough to inhabit.

Take a walk outside (if you live in Colorado, today is stunningly beautiful) and pay attention to the tiny creatures with which we cohabitate-often forgotten.They too can thrive if we continue to take less and less. Look at the beautiful spring greens coming in all around us, telling us that mother earth is alive and providing for us as she always has-and will if we make the changes necessary. Happy Earth Day to you all and I wish you all a peaceful and healing day!!

xoxo,

Trysta