| Native American Prayer for Peace: | Oh Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other so that they may grow
with peace of mind
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.
| | | | Great Spirit Prayer: |
Great Spirit, Great Spirit, My Grandfather,
All over the earth the faces of living things are all alike. . .
Look upon these faces of children without number
And with children in their arms,
That they may face the winds and
Walk the good road to the day of quiet. . .
There is no death. . .
Only a change of worlds. . .
Only a change of worlds.
| | | | Traditional Native American Prayer: |
O Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds,
and whose breath gives life to all the world
-hear me-
I come before you, one of your children.
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,
my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise, so that I may know the things
you have taught my People.
The lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy,
myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you,
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades as a fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
| | | | Aztec Prayer: | Lord most giving and resourceful,
I implore you;
make it your will
that this people enjoy
the goods and riches you naturally give,
that naturally issue from you,
that are pleasing and savory,
that delight and comfort,
though lasting but briefly,
passing away as if in a dream.
| | | | 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 moccasins make
happy tracks in many snows.
And may the rainbow
always touch your shoulder. | | | | The Apache Wedding Prayer: | Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be
shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be
warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
for each of you will be
companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
but there is only one
life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place,
to enter into the days
of your togetherness.
And may your days
be good and long
upon the earth. | | | | Lakota Prayer: | Wakan Tanka ~ Oh, great mystery
teach me how to trust my heart and mind,
and to listen to the intuition of my small voice within
to trust the sacred senses of my body
and the blessings of my spririt
please teach me to trust all these things
and to be still....as the air before the dawn
that I might enter my sacred space
and learn to love beyond my fear
and thus, walk in the beauty way of peace
with the passing of each sun. | | | | Native American {Iowa} Proverb: | | A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. | | | | Native American {Cheyenne} Proverb: | | A danger foreseen is half-avoided. | | | | Native American: | | A warrior who had more than he needed would make a feast. He went around and invited the old and needy. . . The man who could thank the food—some worthy old medicine man or warrior—said, ". . . . look to the old, they are worthy of old age; they have seen their days and proven themselves. With the help of the Great Spirit, they have attained a ripe old age. At this age the old can predict or give knowledge or wisdom, whatever it is; it is so. At the end is a cane. You and your family shall get to where the cane is | |
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