Earth's Prayer {to the intonations of The Lord's Prayer} Our Gaia, whose art is nature abode of our

life, the time has come, your battle won for people's planet-consciousness. Teach us each day, how to be and live through observing nature's models. Those models that bring us into harmony and not into conflict with life's source. Home to humanity in sacred diversity. Deities in unity, our dream.

Our Gaia, whose heart feeds all creatures alive on this Earth. Attuned to that flow, our knowledge grows of what interdependence means. Show us this day a new way to be Born guardians of future life In a heart-based nature with nature at its heart. Our new role in life to honour, respect and protect, share in the caring to sustain the planet. Their destiny our own, at-one.

Our Gaia, as a part of you star-inherited. Your kingdom empowers, your will is ours. Give us, this day, new eyes to see Eyes that embrace the whole world and not just me. A metamorphosis. The land, like our bodies, The sun our inner fire, Rivers, life-blood of earth. Parallel universe, this miracle of life, oneness.

Ann Palmer

On Resurgence website: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article3725-the-earths-prayer.html

email: gaiadance@btinternet.com In the interests of 'breaking down barriers', I send you this. Please feel free to use it, if appropriate. Belief leads to feelings, on which we act. The beliefs are different. The actions to which those beliefs lead, are even more diverse. But the feelings of reverence, awe, wonder, love, humility, and of the absolute rightness of 'our' particular form of spiritual expression are, at root, the same. This is the place of connection for all. Earth's Prayer stands on the cusp of what I was taught as a child and what I came to believe. It retains the 'sound-alike' rhythms grooved into my brain in childhood. It moves into a personal evolved belief system which, naturally, I feel is absolutely right. Earth's Prayer is an overview that works on many levels. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 It honours the tradition of all belief systems prayer. It honours the specific religious tradition of Christianity. It offers a practical down-to-earth sense of oneness. It does not promote elitism of religious belief; rather a sense of a shared spirituality. It is a true reflection of the sharing of our physical life on Earth. It encourages us to take responsibility for the miracle of life on Planet Earth in the goldilocks zone. Irrespective of culture, creed or childhood conditioning, it restores sacredness to the Earth on which we all depend.

Any one religion restricts, channels, forms, tweaks our human way of seeing and allows anomalies, discordances, mismatches, to persist, live on. (Which promote, albeit unconsciously, fragmented or compartmentalised thinking.) Oneness has to be the start-point because that is the reality. To re-create a coherent vibrational field, a sense of oneness, to heal ourselves and the Earth is surely an upcoming agenda? I never 'lost my faith' in the miracle of all existence. I simply re-positioned Christianity as one form of spiritual expression and found it fitted better into an overall overview of multi-religions. What else can promote wholeness? Peace? Harmony? For the future of our species, homo sapiens, nothing is more important than the ecosystem. If you are in a position to use Earth's Prayer to advantage, please do so.