Manitongquat

Hear, O Humankind, the prayer of my heart.

For are we not one, have we not one desire,

to heal our Mother Earth and bind her wounds,

to hear again from dark forests and flashing rivers

the varied ever changing Song of Creation?

O Humankind, are we not all brothers and sisters,

Are we not the grandchildren of the Great Mystery?

Do we not all want to love and be loved, to work

and to play, to sing and dance together?

But we live with fear. Fear that is hate, fear

that is mistrust, envy, greed, vanity, fear that is

ambition, competition, aggression, fear that is

loneliness, anger, bitterness, cruelty . . . and yet,

fear is only twisted love, love turned back on itself,

love that was denied, love that was rejected . . .

And love . . .

    Love is life - creation, seed and leaf    

and blossom and fruit and seed, love is growth

and search and reach and touch and dance.

Love is nurture and succor and feed and pleasure,

love is pleasuring ourselves pleasuring each other,

love is life believing in itself.

    And life . . .

Life is the Sacred Mystery singing to itself, dancing

to its drum, telling tales, improvising, playing

and we are all that Spirit, our stories all

but one cosmic story that we are love indeed,

that prefect love in me seeks the love in you,

and if our eyes could ever meet without fear

we would recognize each other and rejoice,

for love is life believing in itself.

 

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