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Topic: Native American Prayer
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Kal_El
Knowflake Posts: 22
From: Rainy City
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted December 23, 2009 12:30 AM
 
Native American Prayer Oh, 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. (translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)
published in Native American Prayers - by the Episcopal Church.
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” C.S. Lewis IP: Logged |
WinkAway
Knowflake Posts: 230
From: The great beyond
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 23, 2009 12:02 PM
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Kal_El
Knowflake Posts: 22
From: Rainy City
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted December 24, 2009 12:25 AM
Yeah, I always thought it was. 
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When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Cree Prophecy IP: Logged |
Kal_El
Knowflake Posts: 22
From: Rainy City
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted December 24, 2009 12:31 AM
We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader
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when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
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WinkAway
Knowflake Posts: 230
From: The great beyond
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 24, 2009 11:53 AM
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Randall
Webmaster Posts: 870
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 29, 2009 06:18 AM
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"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 215
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 01, 2010 01:40 PM
One of my favorites------------------
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
mys-elf13
Moderator Posts: 114
From: deerfield
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 02, 2010 05:08 PM
Kal_El Thanks for posting.I felt the beating on Life's drum as I read this. It is amazing on few occassions where written works can have the effect where we feel the meaning of what the words are saying. ------------------
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right"
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Randall
Webmaster Posts: 870
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 02, 2010 05:17 PM
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Kal_El
Knowflake Posts: 22
From: Rainy City
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted January 08, 2010 05:19 PM
mys-elf13
I always loved that prayer. The other one just seemed relevant to post as it pertained to religion. The second one I felt had the ring of truth in it for me. It always made me take a second look at life in general.------------------
When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Cree Prophecy IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 870
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 15, 2010 07:35 PM
Me, too.------------------
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