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Aho Great Mysterious, Winter is Upon Us and with it the Coming of a New Year, a New Century, a New Millennium. Like the Great Bear who Journeys Within During This Time of Outer Darkness and Cold, We To Journey In -- To Seek In Our Hearts and Minds, Our Bodies and Souls, Our Deeper Dreams, And Your Dream For Us. Thank You Great Mysterious Who Knows How to Create and Sustain a Universe, Who Knows How to Create Life, Love, Healing. Thank You For Your Love that You would give us this Opportunity to be Alive, this Opportunity to Create with You a World of Peace with Justice, where each of your Sacred Creations is Treated With Respect and Caring, Knowing that What We Give To Another, We Give To Ourselves, and to You. Thank you for All the Gifts of Your Beautiful Creation--Below Us, Above Us, All Around Us, and Within Us. Thank You for You at the Center of All, at the Periphery of All, and for Being in All the Spaces In Between. Thank you for the Gift of Family, Friends, of Community. Thank You for the Wisdom Teachings of Ancestors, of Elders, of Children, of the Earth, of Animals, of Indigenous Peoples Struggling to Survive. Thank you for the Gift of Work, and for Our Co-Workers. Thank You for Food and Drink, for Shelter, Protection, and Clothing. Thank You for Health, Prosperity on All Levels, for the Healing Wonders of Forgiveness, Kindness, Compassion. Thank You for Our Awareness and the Gift of Being Able to Choose Where We Place Our Attention. Help Us to Remember and Give Away to Those Who Are Not As Fortunate As We -- the sick, the lame, the hungry, the homeless, the orphans, the frightened, the poor of pocket and the poor of soul, heart, companionship, and happiness. Thank You Creator of All, Who Has Been Always, Who Will Be Always, Who Is Here Now in the Darkness of Winter, " por todos sus regalos ", for all of your gifts -- Your Infinite, Unconditional Love, Wisdom, Peace and Healing Light. Help Us All to use this Sacred Looks Within Time to Nourish What Needs and Deserves Nourishment, and to Pull out the Weeds of What Does Not Serve Greatest Good, Greatest Healing, Greatest Love. Thank You Ancient Holy One for the Wisdom Guidance You Give Us All to Help Us On Our Paths of Remembering Who We Are and Why We Are Here. Help Us To Listen Well, and then to Honor and Act On the Fruits of Our Listening, Doing the Best We Can To Be The Changes We Want To See In The World. With Your Help, All Things Are Possible. Thank You for the Sweet and Powerful Medicine of Faith and Trust. With It, With You, We Can Hold Hope For A Healthy and Holy Rebirth In Spring of New Life. Give us Strength To Do Our Part In Helping This Faith Bear Fruit Making The New Year, the New Century, and the New Millennium, Love-Filled, and Peace-Permeated For All Our Relations. Thank You Great Spirit for the Opportunity to Be With You in Prayer. May All Our Prayers Be Fulfilled In Ways That Are For The Greatest Good. Hallalujah. Amen. Awoman. Shalom. Pompadios. Muchas Gracias. Merci. HAPPY HOLY DAYS TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, TO ALL OF CREATION.MAY IT BE SO. -- tomás |