Peace Prayers

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The garden is rich with diversity

With plants of a hundred families

In the space between the trees

With all the colors and fragrances.

Basil, mint and lavender,

God keep my remembrance pure,

Raspberry, Apple, Rose,

God fill my heart with love,

Dill, anise, tansy,

Holy winds blow in me.

Rhododendron, zinnia,

May my prayer be beautiful

May my remembrance O God

be as incense to thee

In the sacred grove of eternity

As I smell and remember

The ancient forests of earth.

 

~~~ Chinook Psalter

Page 309 (Cycles of Life) Earth Prayers From Around

the World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations For

Honoring the Earth. Roberts and Amidon, Harper Collins

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Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live

outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony.

When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it

needs nurturing and attention. We must protect peace

from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must

be strong to do this, But force, even in the name of

honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the

strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can

nurture peace in this difficult time.

 

~~~ Deng Ming Dao

Page 61b, Peace Prayers: Meditations, Affirmations,

Invocations, Poems and Prayers for Peace, edited by C.

Leadingham, J. Moschella, and H. Vartanian, Harper San

Francisco.

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*****Special Valentines Day Poem******

Earth Prayers has special poems and prayers mapped out

for the various Western Holidays of the year and this

is what is suggested for February 14th:

 

This comes from one of the most beautiful love

poems/songs ever written: The Old Testament “Song of

Songs.”

 

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the

singing birds is

come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our

land,

The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the

vines with the

tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my

fair one,

and come away.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the

secret places of

the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear

thy voice;

for sweet is they voice, and thy countenance is

comely.

 

~~~ The Song of Solomon 2: 10-14 King James Version

Page 289 (Cycles of Life) Earth Prayers From Around

the World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations For

Honoring the Earth. Roberts and Amidon, Harper Collins