Prayer to the spirit that animates all things

Spirit who lives in all things,

who wears a dress of pebbles and flowers,

bird song and flowing water,

I greet you in the language of breath.

I speak first to the earth beneath me.

Great Mother of patience and bones.

Thank you for holding my weight

without complaint,

for remembering every footstep

and still offering grass.

I greet the water- rivers with moving feelings,

wells with deep memories,

rain that weeps tears of joy and sorrow.

Float my listening inward.

Teach me how to feel without forgetting myself.

I greet the fire- bright, quick teacher of change.

Alive in the sun, in the spark of grace,

in the warmth that gathers people close.

Show me how to transform

without consuming.

I greet the wind- across the void, messengers with many voices.

Enter my lungs and speak clearly.

Carry my words where they belong

and scatter what no longer serves.

I greet the trees- sentinels, upright kin, rooted elders.

Let me borrow your steadiness, y

our resilience, yearning towards light.

Teach me how to stand in one place

and still be alive.

To all the beings seen and unseen,

stone-spirits, leaf-spirits, animal spirits,

insect minds, the mycelium pathways

and the quiet presence moving through them all,

I ask not for power, but for relationship.

Let me walk gently among you.

Let my life become an offering of attention.

Let my gratitude be something you can feel,

like rain returning to the soil, opening the inner eye

that sees deeply into the life of all things.