Prayer for Mother Earth
Joyce Pace Byrd
never realizing that you are a being like all others -
that you also need love and care and re-generation.
It is my privilege to serve you -
though I am small and unpracticed.
I offer my love and gratitude
for the great beauty you enable me to share.
I send what strength I have directly to your heart,
I lend all of my energies to your purpose.
I must tell you that I have met some of your delightful children -
the dazzling crimson hibiscus that currently graces my deck,
the brilliant goldfinch that drinks each morning from the water dish,
each magnificent to my human eyes.
But I also know the diligent, gray earthworms that quietly aerate your soils
and have come upon bold fans of fungus
springing up from the forest floor in the dance of regeneration.
With fronds of ferns and grasses I have felt the ruffling of your gentle breath
and heard tell of the powerful currents undulating deep in the oceans
pumping nourishment through your body.
And these marvels are a tiny sample of the joys I have been given.
Had I all of eternity I could make but small note of the delights of your creations.
Myriads of your miracles go unnoticed in every moment.
I am small and unpracticed,
but filled with gratitude and wonder.
Like all of your children,
I am sustained and upheld in the pulsing of your loving heart.
So seldom have I told you,
so seldom given thanks,
for this great gift - incarnation –
this precious opportunity to hold consciousness in a body.
It is my privilege to serve you.
I send what strength I have directly to your heart,
lend all of my energies to your purpose,
join my voice to unceasing hymns of praise.
Joyce Pace Byrd
07-17-2007
JoycePByrd@aol.com
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