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Welcome! This is a place to share how we celebrate & deepen our relationship to Nature. Here you will find stories, images, & ideas about wilderness, human nature, & soulfulness. Drawing from the experiences of everyday living, the topics on this blog include: forays into the natural world, the writing life, community service, meditation, creativity, grief & loss, inspiration, & whatever else emerges from these. I invite you on this exploration of the wild within & outside of us: the inner/outer landscape.



Monday, April 18, 2016

Monday Musings POEM: “Traditional Navajo Prayer”

TEALarbor stories’ Monday Musings are quotes, poems, & practices offering simple ways to explore the ecotone of the inner/outer landscape. 


Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,
I have made your sacrifice.
Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,
Jet beautiful, fool’s gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful, reed pollen, pollen
            beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.
This day your child I have become, I say.
 
Watch over me.
Hold your hand before me in protection.
Stand guard for me, speak in defense of me.
As I speak for you, speak for me.
As you speak for me, so will I speak for you.
            May it be beautiful before me,
            May it be beautiful behind me,
            May it be beautiful below me,
            May it be beautiful above me,
            May it be beautiful all around me.

            I am restored in beauty.
            I am restored in beauty.
            I am restored in beauty.
            I am restored in beauty.

Original Source: Changing Woman



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