Chinook Blessing Litany

We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it:

Teach us and show us the way.

We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they:

Teach us and show us the way.

We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields, and we ask that they:

Teach us and show us the way.

We call upon the forests, the great tress reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the cedar, and we ask them to:

Teach us and show us the way.

We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin, the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask them to:

Teach us and show us the way.

We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to:

Teach us and show us the way.

And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the universe…to be with us to:

Teach us and show us the way.

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We read this together in church today. Blessings to all of Creation and to our Chinook brothers and sisters, in honor of Earth Day. (I hope you get your tribal status soon.)

Amen.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2001

Answers

I love that! thank you Sheepish ! Amen and Amen. Tren

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2001

Sheepish thanks so much for sharing that. I think it is so cool that it was read in your church. I'm going to print it out and read it at our Beltaine ritual. See, Pagans and Christians can get along!

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2001

Wow church seems to have changed! That was really great. Thank you Sheepish!......Kirk

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2001

That was beautiful. I'm going to print it out as soon as I'm able (no printer here). Thanks for sharing, sheepish.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2001

You are all welcome. This isn't out of the ordinary particularly, for my church. We read Native American material in our services from time to time. (As well as other places...recently South Africa was "featured.") And we also have a strong environmental component in our mission statement. Just because Jesus is heading up the org. chart doesn't mean we don't populate the other positions with other "interesting characters"...

Kirk, I don't know if church has changed. We still have Communion and Baptism as Sacraments. People still park in front of the hydrants...LOL.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2001