{"id":65,"date":"2008-11-27T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-03-30T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:56:20","slug":"a-thanksgiving-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/a-thanksgiving-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aHo! Mitakuye Oyasin! Wakan Tanka! Tunkashila!<\/p>\n<p>Great and Eternal Mystery! Great Spirit!<\/p>\n<p>I come to you in this humble way to offer my gratitude and thanks for this light and this life. This beauty way. <\/p>\n<p>And so I pray&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u00a0give thanks to our mother, the Earth, who holds us gently in her arms and sustains us. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>We\u00a0give thanks to father Sky, who brings us the rain that fills\u00a0the rivers and streams, which supply us with water.<br \/>\nWe\u00a0give thanks to all the plant nation people. The herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases.\u00a0The corn, and to her sisters, the beans and squash, which give us life.\u00a0The bushes and trees, which provide us with fruit.<br \/>\nWe give thanks to the wind, which moves fresh clean air to us.<br \/>\nWe gives thanks to the Moon, Grandmother Nissa, and the star nation people, which give us their light when the sun is gone.<br \/>\nWe give thanks to Grandfather Sun, that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye and brought warmth and light.<br \/>\nLastly, we\u00a0give thanks to\u00a0Great Spirit in whom is embodied all goodness, all life and all love. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Love, Gratitude and Great Thanksgiving! Wastelo!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aHo! Mitakuye Oyasin! Wakan Tanka! Tunkashila! Great and Eternal Mystery! Great Spirit! I come to you in this humble way to offer my gratitude and thanks for this light and this life. This beauty way. And so I pray&#8230; We\u00a0give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/a-thanksgiving-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[],"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnp0G-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tolemac.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}