Prayer for Today

GRANDFATHER'S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
Today, my Creator I will endeavor to take time out for the family.
TO THE FAMILY
The creator gave to us the family, which is the place where all teachings are handed down from the grandparent, to the parent, and to the child. The children's behavior is a mirror of the parent's behavior Knowing this, I realize the importance for each person to build a strong and balanced family. By doing this, I will break the cycle of hurt and ensure the positive and mental health of the children, even the children yet to be born. So from now on:
I will dedicate my priorities to rebuilding my family.
I must never give up and leave my family only to one parent.
I am accountable to restore the strength of my family. To do this, I will nurture our family's spiritual, cultural, and social health. I will demonstrate trust, respect, honour, and discipline; but mostly I will be consistent in whatever I do with them.
I will see that the grandparents and the Elders play a significant role in the education of my children.
I realise that the male and female together are fundamental to our family life. I will listen to my mates' council for our family's benefit, as well as for the benefit of my heritage and all my extended family throughout the world.
Have you told the family that you love them today?

GRANDFATHER PETER

DA NAHO AWEO (It has been said and is beautiful)

Prayer for Today

GRANDFATHER'S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
Today my Creator I pray that all men
will respect and honour the Women and the feminine principle in all things.

Philosophy TO THE WOMEN and all things Feminine.
The cycle of life for the woman is the baby, girl, woman, and grandmother. These are the four directions of life. She has been given by the natural laws, the ability to reproduce life. The most sacred of all things is life. Therefore, all men should treat her with dignity and respect. Never should we harm her mentally or physically. Men should never be abusers. We must treat our women with respect and understanding.

So from now on: I will treat women in a sacred manner. The Creator gave women the responsibility for bringing new life into the world. Life is sacred, so I will look upon the women in a sacred manner.

In traditional ways, the woman is the foundation of the family. I will work with her to create a home atmosphere of respect, security and harmony.
I will refrain from any form of emotional or physical abuse. If I have these feelings, I will talk to the Creator for guidance. I will treat all women as if they were my own female relatives. This is my vow.

Prayer for Today

GRANDFATHER'S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
It is said what
we do cannot be undone.
May we always remember what we do today does not only
affect ourselves and our children but seven generations to
come.

Philosophy TO THE CHILDREN
As an eagle prepares its young to leave the nest will all the skills and knowledge it needs to participate in life, in the same manner so will I guide my children. I will use the best from my culture to prepare them for life.
The most important thing I can give to my children is my time. I will spend time with them in order to learn from them and to listen to them.
I will teach my children to pray, as well as the importance of respect.
We are the caretakers of the children for the Creator. They are His children, not ours.
I am proud of my heritage. I will learn it if I can and help my children to learn it. In today's world it is easy for the children to go astray, so I will work to provide positive alternatives for them.
I will teach them the culture. I will encourage education. I will encourage sports. I will encourage them to talk to the Elders for guidance; but mostly, I will seek to be a role model myself.
I make this commitment to my children so they will have courage and find guidance through my traditional ways, but at the same time teach them to respect others ways of living.
GRANDFATHER PETER

DA NAHO AWEO (It has been said and is beautiful)

grandfather's prayer for today

GRANDFATHER’S PRAYER FOR TODAY

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Creator of all things, help us all to walk the

PATH of TRUTH.

True Path Walkers
Obligations of the True Path Walkers
To bring back the natural harmony that humans once enjoyed.To save the planet from present practices of destruction.To find and re-employ real truth.To promote true balance between both genders.To share and be less materialistic.To endeavor to get rid of prejudice.To learn that we are related to all things.To be kind to animals and take no more than we need.To play with one's children and love each equally and fairly.To be brave and courageous, enough so,to take a stand and make a commitment.To understand what Generations Unborn really means.To accept the Great Mysteryin order to end foolish arguments over religion.

GRANDFATHER PETER

Summer Solstice(Northern Hemisphere)

THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
21st JUNE
The Festival of the North
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SUMMER SOLSTICE

Together with the growing light we travel another month and a half around the Sun, and on the longest day of the year we celebrate the Summer Solstice. It is the Festival of the north, because there is no night in the north of the Earth and the Sun will be shining for twenty four hours. Here the secret of the Sun is revealed and says to us “Behold, as you see me now, throughout the round of night and day, so I am with you always, even if you cannot see me." The light of the Great Father shines in all its brilliance and energises us with his masculine power. In the light of the summer sun everything comes to blossom. The highest point of the Sun fills us with the power of the animal spirits. The North is the place of the animals on the Shamanic Medicine Wheel, and at this time our animal allies and totems come to us with all their power. They help us to enlighten our heart so we can set our inner animal free so that its instinct, its clarity of action and knowledge may take hold in our minds. Our Ancestors symbolically lit bonfires at this time that burnt day and night, symbolising the Sun burning all day and night in the North. The fires helped and can help us purify ourselves by thrusting our false thinking into the flames. Through this purification our Higher Self bursts from its cocoon of Lower Self and shines in the centre of the Heavens like the Pole Star in which all knowledge, logic and power of mind are integrated.
We start to respect ourselves and the role of others; if we call upon the sacred four and fourteen for help-- they talk to us directly on this day. We can throw of our ego and unite with our animal nature and our ally in the realm of the animals, who will give us guidance and direction during the upcoming descent into the dankness. For in the ensuring days ahead our Great father Sun will leave his lofty throne and begin his descent into the depth of the dark realm. Thus, at the Sun's highest point, we are celebrating also the reappearance of darkness.

THE BEARCLAN SCHOOL FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES
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grandfather's prayer for today

GRANDFATHER’S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
Great Mystery help us to share in the prayers we send to you.
Great Mystery help us to understand the prayers we send to you.
Great Mystery help us to live by the prayers we send to you.

Great Spirit
Great Spirit,give us hearts to understand;Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;Never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;Never to take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts to understandThat to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;That as we care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten who we are.We have sought only our own security.We have exploited simply for our own ends.We have distorted our knowledge.We have abused our power.
Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with mis-use,help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,help us to find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lostin selfishness and corruption,help us to find the way to restore our humanity.

MIIWETCH/ NYWEH, GITCHI MANITOU

GRANDFATHER PETER

GRANDFATHER’S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
My Creator may we always know that it does not matter what language prayers are sent to you, they will always be heard.

Chinook Lord's Prayer
Nesika papa klaksta mitlite kopa saghalie

(Our Father Who dwells on High)
Kloshe kopa nesika tumtum mika nem.

(Good for our hearts Your Name.)
Kloshe mika tyee kopa konaway tillikum;

(Good you Chief of all people;)
Kloshe mika tumtum kopa illahee kahkwa kopa saghalie;

(Good Your heart to make our country such as Yours up above;)
Potlatch konaway sun nesika muckamuck,

(Give us all days our food,)

Pee kopet-kumtux donaway nesika mesachie,

(And stop remembering all our sins we make to them,)
Kahkwa nesilka mamook kopa klasksta spose mamookmesachie kopa nesia;

(As we suppose not their sin against us;)
Mahah siah kopa nesika konaway mesachie.

(Throw far away from us all evil)
Kloshe kahkwa.

(Amen.)

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Grandfather Peter