O Great Creator!
Hear me!
I come to you
in what I understand to be
the Right &
to make these Prayers.
My will as thine own will be done in & through me;
Guide me & Protect me always.
To the Spirits of the South, the place of Insight & Introspection,
I call on you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Spirits of the West, the place of Learning & Imagination,
I call on you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Spirits of the North, the place of Knowledge & Understanding,
I call on you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Spirits of the East, the place of New Beginnings,
of Walking the Talk & Talking the Walk,
I call on you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Great Mother Earth, from which all Life comes & all Life returns,
I am of you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Great Creator of the Universe, without which Life would not Be,
I am one with you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
To the Life-Giving-Force-That-Flows-Through-All-Things & Interconnects us All,
I draw on you…
(Water, blood of the Earth, cleanse & purify)
Hear me!
Guide me & Protect me always --
help me walk always in Balance & Harmony on the Great Mother Earth.
Let all my thoughts & feelings & acts
be aligned with love & compassion & beauty.
Guide & Protect my wife, Eve, and our children, Caelan & Cassidy --
help all four of us walk always in Balance & Harmony on the Great Mother Earth
and live always in Balance & Harmony with each other & all Sentient Beings.
Keep us always from harm.
For all of our Blessings:
the roof over our heads, the food on our table, the clothing on our backs,
education, transportation;
for all the Love & Joy & Beauty & People in our lives;
and for our Health, our Health, our Health, our Health,
I give my Eternal & Undying Gratitude.
I ask for your continued Guidance & Protection:
help me balance Making a Living with Living a Life;
help me balance taking care of Caelan's & Cassidy's Emotional/Mental/Spiritual needs
with their Financial/Material needs;
help me synchronize my Passions in Life with a Prosperous Way of Life;
help me balance being Parent with being Partner
and balance being Partner with being Individual;
help Eve & me rediscover, rekindle, reignite, reinflame & reinvent all the
Love & Lust & Passion & Desire & Joy & just plain Fun
we had with each other & for each other when first our Love was new, when first we met:
let us be two individuals united in marital balance & harmony as a family.
O Great Creator of the Universe!
Hear me!
Guide & Protect all four of us --
John, Eve, Caelan & Cassidy --
in living Long, Healthy, Prosperous, Loving, Enriched & Enriching,
Peaceful, Joyous, Harmonious, Enlightened & Enlightening lives,
and live to cross over the Brow of the Fourth Hills of each of our Lives
in Health, Well-Being, and Familial Unity & Harmony!
And thusly I ask that you Guide & Protect all of our Families & Friends
and all of our Families' & Friends' Families & Friends,
and so on and so forth.
Guide & Protect us ALL!
Help us ALL to walk in Balance & Harmony on the Great Mother Earth
and live in Balance & Harmony with each other and all Sentient Beings.
In the name of all that is Right & Just & Good in this World & the Next
I make these Prayers.
Hear me!
Guide me & Protect me;
Speak to me in a Dream or a Vision or a Language I Can Understand.
My will as thine own will be done in & through me.
O Great Creator!
I have Spoken!
HO!
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