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Listen to the salutation to the dawn,
Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of our existence,
The bliss of growth, the splendour of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well spent makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look therefore to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
We give-away our thanks to the earth which gives us our home.
We give-away our thanks to the rivers and lakes which give-away their water.
We give-away our thanks to the trees which give-away fruit and nuts.
We give-away our thanks to the wind which brings rain to water the plants.
We give-away our thanks to the sun who gives-away warmth and light.
All beings on earth: the trees, the animals, the wind and the rivers give-away to one another so all is in balance.
We give-away our promise to begin to learn how to stay in balance with all the earth.
Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day – and to her soil, rich, rare and sweet in our minds so be it
Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing light-changing leaf and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind and rain; their dance is in the flowing spiral grain in our minds so be it
Gratitude to Air, bearing the soaring Swift and the silent Owl at dawn, Breath of our song clear spirit breeze in our minds so be it
Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets, freedoms and ways, who share with us their milk; self-complete, brave and aware in our minds so be it
Gratitude to Water: clouds, lakes, rivers, glaciers, holding or releasing, streaming through all our bodies salty seas in our minds so be it
Gratitude to the Sun: blinding pulsing light through trunks of trees, through mists, warming caves where bears and snakes sleep – he who wakes us in our minds so be it
Gratitude to the Great Sky, who holds billions of stars – and goes yet beyond that – beyond all powers and thoughts and yet is within us – Grandfather Space
The Mind is his Wife.
So be it.
Great Spirit,
Give us hearts to understand,
Never to take
From creations 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 understand that 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 join with the earth and with each other.
To bring new life to the land
To restore the waters
To restore the air
We join with the earth and with each other.
To renew the forests
To care for the plants
To protect the creatures
We join with the earth and with each other.
To celebrate the seas
To rejoice in the sunlight
To sing the song of the stars
We join with the earth and with each other.
To recreate the human community
To promote justice and peace
To remember our children
We join with the earth and with each other.
We join together as many and diverse expressions
Of one loving mystery: for the healing of the
Earth and the renewal of all life.
We have forgotten who we are.
We have alienated ourselves from the unfolding of the cosmos
We have become estranged from the movements of the Earth
We have turned our backs on the cycles of life.
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.
We have forgotten who we are.
Now the land is barren
And the waters are poisoned
And the air is polluted.
We have forgotten who we are.
Now the forests are dying
And the creatures are disappearing
And humans are despairing.
We have forgotten who we are.
We ask forgiveness
We ask for the gift of remembering
We ask for the strength to change.
We have forgotten who we are.
