Dear Mother Earth,
From the beginning you have given to us. You provide us with food and water, shelter and resources to keep us warm and safe. You provide medicine and heal your children when they were sick. You inspire artists, writers and poets by your beauty.
Mother Earth, you offer teaching and advice, but in our ignorance we ignore you. You offer us a bounty, plenty for all your children to live in abundance. But we are greedy. We worship our individuality; we build idols to our ego. We fight and kill our fellow man for dominance and power. We are hoarders of your gifts.
Mother Earth, we take you for granted; ignoring your examples of generosity. And still, you are faithful to us. You are steady as the seasons and the tides. From generation to generation you provide for our needs, but in our greed we consume the abundance and worry not about the rare and fragile. We point fingers at our brothers and sisters and say it is their fault when we hurt you. It is their fault we don’t have enough. We probe to the depths of your soul and pull the life blood from your veins and in our greed we hoard what you have so freely offered to us. Like a cancer taking over, our greed and destruction has maimed your beauty and has spread over your body into your womb and still we take from you.
Mother Earth, forgive me; forgive my brothers, my sisters and all your sons and daughter; we who have disfigured your beauty. Forgive our arrogance and the greed that has caused you pain and sadness. Some of us are angry. Some are saddened and many are scared. We have done a terrible thing to you and many of us want to help but feel helpless. Many of your children are praying, many are shouting and many are crying. Let us comfort one another; let us work together. Let us join together in prayer before it’s too late.
We pray to you, Father, that we would right our wrongs; that we would begin to act in love for you and your children. We pray that our brothers and sisters would come together as family and once again sit at the table in love, sharing with one another. Let us celebrate in our relatives’ successes, let us mourn with them in their losses. Let us all give thanks for your gifts. Father, let us live in harmony, respect and honor with our fellow man; with our animals, with Mother Earth and with you in the way it was intended from the beginning.
