What leads to your feeling of gratitude?  What do you give thanks for today?

“We offer gratitude, and everything will be provided.”

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Thank you, good foods from Mother Earth, our life sustainers, for making us happy when we are hungry. 

Fruits and berries, we thank you for your color and sweetness.

We are all thankful to good medicine herbs, for healing us when we are sick.

Thank you, all the animals in the world, for keeping our precious forests clean.

All the trees in the world, we are thankful for the shade and warmth you give us.

Thank you, all the birds in the world, for singing your beautiful songs for all to enjoy.

We give thanks to you, gentle Four Winds, for bringing clean air for us to breathe from four directions.

Thank you Grandfather Thunder Beings for bringing rains to help all living things grow.

Elder Brother Sun, we send thanks for shining your light and warming Mother Earth.

Thank you, Grandmother Moon, for growing full every month to light the darkness for children and sparkling waters.

We give thanks, twinkling stars, for making the night sky so beautiful and for sprinkling morning dew drops on the plants.

Spirit Protectors of our past and present, we thank you for showing us ways to live in peace and harmony with one another.

And most of all, thank you, Great Spirit, for giving us all these wonderful gifts, so we will be happy and healthy every day and every night." 

I am drawn to the contradictions, the paradox of being a spiritual being in a physical body.
I have felt a sense since childhood of being alien in a technological word that moves much faster than my natural rhythm.
Here I am. How can I help?  What would it be like to find  your natural rhythms:  your places of shelter and safety, your infinite landscapes that lie  within?