Meditations on the Land

Here is a prayer to voice when you are alone in the forest walking the woods, or on another day when you are riding out on the Buffalo Prairie, or even with the wind in your face upon the sea.  Remember too there the gift of your hands that manipulates tools so easily to bind you to this earth.  Contemplate and breathe in the odors and the air of our Earth.

Sit in a sunlit glade and meditate on these words for a spell and find your inner calmness. The lord’s prayer has the same gravitis and earns a similar place in our thoughts.

Great Spirit Prayer  "Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, Whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me; 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. Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. Help me seek pure thoughts and act with the intention of helping others. Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me. 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.

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,

The power, and the glory,

For ever and ever.

Amen.