Daily Meditation: Make Us Wise

We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.

Today's meditation features a Sioux prayer from The Little Book of Prayers, edited by David Schiller. The prayer reminds us to live fully, appreciate the present moment and face each new day with fresh eyes.

A Sioux prayer

I come before thee as one of thy many children. See, I am small and weak; I need thy strength and wisdom.

Grant me to walk in beauty and that my eyes may ever behold the crimson sunset. May my hands treat with respect the things which thou hast created, may my ears hear thy voice!

Make me wise, that I may understand the things which thou hast taught my people, which thou hast hidden in every leaf and every rock.

I long for strength, not in order that I may overreach my brother but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Make me ever ready to come to thee with pure hands and candid eyes, so that my spirit, when life disappears like the setting sun, may stand unashamed before thee.

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