Great Spirit
Chief Yellow Lark — Medicine Man - 1887
 
I came upon this prayer in April of 2005 while I was preparing a letter to my brother who was working his way back to health from rheumatoid arthritis.
The words reflect upon the physical manifestation of God that awaits me when I open my eyes, reach out and breath.  Focusing attention on the tools and instruments at hand allows me to discover my own nature, bringing to me the realization of the All powerful harmonious note that resonates through All.
The photo behind the prayer was taken facing east on 4/12/05  @ 7:17 pm.  A subtle glimpse of life as a splash of color on a gray background with a flutter of activity, a covenant of hope & beauty that is Love.
Oh GREAT SPIRIT:
 
Whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose
breath gives life to all the world, hear me.
I am a man before You, one of Your many
children - I am small and weak.  I need Your
 
 
Healing
A Baha'i Prayer
It must have been around February, 2003 that I went on a search for a healing prayer that might serve me. I came upon this one by the Bahá'í Faith and it felt appropriate. I copied it, printed it,
 
Self Reliance
“In what prayers do men allow themselves!  That which they call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.  Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.  Prayer that craves a particular commodity,  any thing less than all good,  is vicious.  Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.  It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.  But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.  As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.  He will then see prayer in all action.”
          — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),  Self Reliancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emersonshapeimage_5_link_0
Prayer