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Date Posted: 14:48:27 06/30/01 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: "Teach us and show us the Way"

"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 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 the 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 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."

~Chinook blessing~

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