Peace Prayers

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Earth mother, star mother,

You who are called by

a thousand names,

May all remember

we are cells in your body

and dance together

You are the grain

and the loaf

That sustains us each day,

And as you are patient

with our struggles to learn

So shall we be patient

with and each other

We are radiant light

and sacred dark

---the balance---

You are the embrace that heartens

And the freedom beyond fear.

Within you we are born

we grow, live, and die—

You bring us around the circle to rebirth,

Within us you dance

Forever.

 

~~~ Starhawk

Page 15 (The Ecological Self) Earth Prayers From Around the World, 365 Prayers,

Poems, and Invocations For Honoring the Earth. Roberts and Amidon, Harper

Collins

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Now Talking God

With your feet I walk

I walk with your limbs

I carry forth your body

For me your mind thinks

Your voice speaks for me

Beauty is before me

And beauty is behind me

Above and below me hovers the beautiful

I am surrounded by it

I am immersed in it

In my youth I am aware of it

And in old age I shall walk quietly

The beautiful trail.

 

~~~ Native American Prayer

Page 32 (The Ecological Self) Earth Prayers From Around the World, 365 Prayers,

Poems, and Invocations For Honoring the Earth. Roberts and Amidon, Harper

Collins

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Let us understand

The gravity of our situation.

 

Let us understand

That our only redemption

Is love.

 

Love for a small, endangered planet

On which we are utterly dependent.

 

Only love can trans form us

From plunderers and savagers

Into Earthkeepers and peacemakers.

 

Only love can show us

The integrity and rights

If all other beings.

 

Only love can open our eyes

To the truth and beauty

That surround us.

 

Only love can teach us

The humility we need

To love on this Earth.

 

And only love can now save us

from extinction.

 

~~~ Mary de La Valette

Poet and activist,

Gaia Institute, Massachusetts

Page 54, (Creating Communities of Peace), Prayers for a Thousand Years, Roberts

and Amidon, Harper San Francisco