Prayer for Peace

I have always felt a great love and respect for the Native Americans, and I cannot explain why that is so. I have a good friend who is Cherokee, I have attended Pow Wows and worked alongside Native Americans in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. I created a Medicine Wheel from rocks near the stream by our house; and when I had my DNA analyzed by Ancestry.com I was surprised to find no Native American heritage to explain my feelings, only a small percentage of  "other." Perhaps it is in the "other" where my feelings lie. I will never know for sure until I arrive on the other side of life, but I continue to experience peace and satisfaction with my Native American spirituality. I recently wrote a book titled Native American Prayers, Poems, and Legends. It is from this book I offer the following Prayer for Peace:

Hopi Prayer for Peace

  

"Great Spirit and all unseen, this day we pray and ask You for guidance,

humbly we ask You to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful

ways of life, because of uncontrolled deceitfulness by human- kind. Help

us all to love, not hate one another.

We ask you to be seen in an image of Love and Peace. Let us be seen in

beauty, the colors of the rainbow. We respect our Mother, the planet,

with our loving care, for from Her breast we receive our nourishment.

Let us not listen to the voices of the two-hearted, the destroyers of mind,

the haters and self-made leaders, whose lusts for power and wealth will

lead us into confusion and darkness.

Seek visions always of world beauty, not violence nor battlefields.

It is our duty to pray always for harmony between man and earth, so that

the earth will bloom once more. Let us show our emblem of love and goodwill

for all life and land.

Pray for the House of Glass, for within it are minds clear and pure as ice

and mountain streams. Pray for the great leaders of nations in the House of

Mica who in their own quiet ways help the earth in balance.

We pray the Great Spirit that one day our Mother Earth will be purified

into a healthy peaceful one. Let us sing for strength of wisdom with all

nations for the good of all people. Our hope is not yet lost,

  

purification

must be to restore the health of our Mother Earth for lasting peace and

happiness.

Techqua Ikachi - for Land and Life!"