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"My words are tied in one with the great mountains,

with the great rocks, with the great trees, in one with my body and heart.

All of you see me, one with this world."- Yokuts Prayer

Mother Earth Hear Our Prayers

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'Mother Earth hear your child,

As I sit here on your lap of grass, I listen to the echoes of your voice In my brother, the Wind, As he blows from all corners and directions. The soft and gentle raindrops are the Tears you cry for your children Teach me the Lessons you offer: To nurture my children, as you nurture yours, To learn the Lessons of the Four Kingdoms, that make up this World of Physical Things, and To Learn to Walk the Path chosen so long ago. Mother Earth, hear your child, Be a bond between the Worlds of Earth and Spirit. Let the Winds echo the Knowledge of the Grandfathers. Who await, unseen, yet visible if I only turn my eyes to their World. Let me hear their Voices, in the Winds that Blow to the East.

From the East: I seek the Lessons of Childhood: To see with the trusting innocence of a small one, The Lessons of Spirit, Given in Love by our Creator.

From the South: to Learn the Ways of Questioning: The Fire and Independence of adolescence, The Truths, and how they help us Grow along this Path.

From the West: where the Grandfathers teach us Acceptance of Responsibility That come during the years of Marriage and Family. That my own children grow Strong, and True.

From the North: where the Elders, who by their long lives Have learned and stored Wisdom and Knowledge. And Learned to Walk in Balance and Harmony with our Mother, the Earth.

Mother Earth, hear your child. Hold my hand as I Walk my Path in this World. Guide me to the Lessons I seek, bring me closer to Our Creator, Until I return to the Western Direction, to once again Enter the World of Spirit, Where the Sacred Fire Awaits, and I rejoin the Council of the Elders, In the Presence of the One Who-Created-All.'-Mother Earth Prayer by KiiskeeN'tum,Native American Prayers

Love Letter To The Earth, “Can Mother Earth Count on Us?”

Birds Hear Our Prayers

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“I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”-Terry Tempest Williams

‘Hope is a thing with feathers.’

‘How diminished our world would be without birds,

those dinosaurs with feathers and songsmiths with wings.’

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‘Hope is a thing with feathers’ 

…and I pray for a New Day, the Happy Norouz

Norouz—which means “new day”—is an ancient Persian tradition, marking the arrival of spring and the first day of the year in Iran, whose solar calendar begins with the vernal equinox.

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of Nowruz celebrates the start of the Persian New Year on March 21 every year, which occurs on or around the time of the March equinox.

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Norouz is a message of hope, beauty, wisdom, peace, friendship, benevolence, justice for humankind and admiration for nature and an occasion for rethinking, restarting and remaking.

'In my heart you are the mirthful ray

You are the caring, though my companions they

Happy is the world with the Nowruz and with the Eid

You are both my Eid and my Nowruz today

اندر دل من مها دل افروز توئي

ياران هستند ليك دلسوز توئي

شادند جهانيان به نوروز و به عيد

'عيد من و نوروز من امروز توئي

Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rumi جلال‌الدین محمد رومی

Nowruz- The seeds of a New Day, Celebration of our Common Humanity

The Sprouting Seeds of Hope and Humanity

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We wish you all a very Happy Norouz. Hope this year will bring you much happiness and well-being, joy, contentment and inner peace. This journey we call life, is too short, too unpredictable and too fragile. Thus, let us come together in the time-honoured tradition of Norouz and declare our love for each other, our love for our mother earth and nature and our kinship for all living things. Happy New Day, Happy Norouz.

Kamran& Annie Mofid