Two Lakota Prayers.

Wakan Tanka ~ Great Mystery ~ Great Spirit 🍃🍃

Teach me how to trust my heart,🍃
Teach me how to trust my mind,🍃
Teach me how to trust my intuition,🍃

Teach me how to trust my inner knowing,🌱
The senses of my body,🌱
The blessings of my spirit.🌱

Teach me to trust these things🍂
so that I may enter my Sacred Space🍂
and love beyond my fear🍂

And thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.🍁

(According to the Native People, the Sacred Space is the space between exhalation and inhalation. To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality) and Earth (physicality) in Harmony.)🌵

The Great Spirit Prayer 💥

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world.🌐

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.🌐

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.💥

Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.🌐

Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.🌐

Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me.🌐

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.💫

Help me seek pure thoughts and act with the intention of helping others.😌

Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.🌐

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy, Myself.💥

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.🌐

So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.😌