Teach Us And Show Us The Way ~ Chinook Prayer originally written by David Whyte and edited by Fritz Hull
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When I share this prayer with groups we will often divide ourselves in two speaking parts, each taking a verse and together responding with the bold “Teach us, and show us the Way.” This prayer can be modified for personal use as well as bioregional locatedness. I encourage you to play within the form of this prayer and substitute the particular bioregional features with life forms that are particular to your emplacement. This prayer opens you up to the sentient and wise presence of the Sacred Wild, the Holy Other that is incarnated through the Earth and her myriad of biodiverse forms.
Teach Us and Show Us the Way—Chinook Prayer originally written by David Whyte and edited by Fritz Hull
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 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 land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees 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, who share our 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.
