Prayers
Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the warm winds of heaven
Blow softly upon your house
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there
May your mocassins
Make happy tracks
In many snows
And may the rainbow
Always touch your shoulder
Indian Prayer For Peace
Oh, Great Spirit who dwells in the sky,
lead us to the path of peace and understanding,
let all of us live together as brothers and sisters.
Our lives are so short here,
walking upon Mother Earth's surface.
Let our eyes be opened to all the blessings you have given us.
Please hear our prayers, Oh Great Spirit.
Earth Prayer
"Ancient Indian Prayer"
To The Great Spirit,
Give us hearts to understand;
Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;
never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;
Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
never to take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts to understand
That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;
that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
that as we care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten who we are.
We have sought only our own security.
We have exploited simply for our own ends.
We have distorted our knowledge.
We have abused our power.
Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
help us to find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in
selfishness and corruption,
help us to find the way to restore our humanity.
Oh, Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the wind,
whose breath gives life to the world,
hear me;
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in Beauty.
An Indian Prayer
O'Great Spirit
Who's voice I hear in the winds
And who's breath gives life to all the world,
hear me! I am small and weak and 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 then 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. Aho!
Pawnee Prayer
Oh, Eagle, come with wings outspread in sunny skies.
Oh, Eagle, come and bring us peace, thy gentle peace.
Oh, Eagle, come and give new life to us who pray.
Remember the circle of the sky,
the stars,
and the brown eagle,
the great life of the Sun,
the young within the nest.
Remember the sacredness of things.
Indian Wedding Prayer
Now you will feel no rain
for each of you will be shelter for the other
Now you will feel no cold
for each of you will be warmth for the other
Now there is no lonliness
Now you are two persons
but there is only one life before you
Go now to your dwelling to enter into the
days of your life together and may your days
Grandfather Great Spirit
All over the world the faces of living
ones are alike.
With tenderness they have come up out
of the ground.
Look upon your children that they may
face the winds
And walk the good road to the Day of Quiet.
Grandfather Great Spirit
Fill us with the Light.
Give us the strength to understand,
And the eyes to see.
Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives
To all that live.
~Sioux Prayer~
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ones are alike.
With tenderness they have come up out
of the ground.
Look upon your children that they may
face the winds
And walk the good road to the Day of Quiet.
Grandfather Great Spirit
Fill us with the Light.
Give us the strength to understand,
And the eyes to see.
Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives
To all that live.
~Sioux Prayer~
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