Prayer for Saturday

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

To be human being is an honor,
and we offer thanksgiving for all the gifts of life.
Mother Earth, we thank you for giving us everything we need.

Thank you, deep blue waters around Mother Earth,
for you are the force that takes thirst away from all living things.
We give thanks to green grasses that feel so good against our bare feet,
for the cool beauty you bring to Mother Earth’s floor.

Thank you, good foods from Mother Earth,
our life sustainers, for making us happy when we are hungry.
Fruits and berries, we thank you for your color and sweetness.
We are all thankful to good medicine herbs, for healing us when we are sick…

All the trees in the world, we are thankful for the shade and warmth you give us…

We give thanks to you, gentle Four Winds,
for bringing clean air for us to breathe from four directions.

Thank you Grandfather Thunder Beings for bringing rains to help all living things grow.

Elder Brother Sun, we send thanks for shining your light and warming Mother Earth…

Spirit Protectors of our past and present,
we thank you for showing us ways to live in peace and harmony with one another.

And most of all, thank you, Great Spirit, for giving us all these wonderful gifts…

(Chief Jake Swamp from Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message
Source: Mystic Momma)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“All that I seek is already within me.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

Prayer for Friday (Taue Matsuri)

Today is the Shinto celebration of Taue Matsuri, the rice-planting festival. The five day Zoroastrian festival of Ghambar Maidyozarem, the Zuni Green Corn Dance, and the Mayan Rain Festival continue today.

Each of us is put here in this time and this place
to personally decide the future of humankind.
Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary
people in a time of such terrible danger?
Know that you yourself are
essential to this World.
~ Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations)

This is what I want to happen: that our earth mother
may be clothed in ground corn four times over;
that frost flowers cover her over entirely;
that the mountain pines far away over there
may stand close to each other in the cold;
that the weight of snow crack some branches!
In order that the country may be this way
I have made my prayer sticks into something alive.

(ZUNI PRAYER)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“My possibilities are endless.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

Prayer for Saturday

The ten day Mayan Rain Festival continues today.

Every thought is a seed.
If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
~ Bill Meyer

The mountains,
I become a part of it.
The herbs, the fir tree,
I become a part of it.
The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters,
I become a part of it.
The wilderness, the dew drops, the pollen,
I become a part of it

(Navajo chant)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I attract into my life what I AM, not what I say that I want.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)