A Blessing of Gratitude with Sister Water
Blessings and continued prayers this day!
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Our embodied collective/prayer meditation this week is an invitation to walk, and offer a blessing of gratitude with Sister Water.
The acequias are beginning to offer the gift of life, water.
Plants are slurping up the springtime melted snow.
We wash our hands with the gift of water.
We drink our fill.
We are the water.
Every religious tradition has rituals for blessing with water, sacred scriptures are filled with stories where water speaks of life, and our lives are filled with sacred water moments.
It is time for gratitude and to listen to the wisdom of water one who heals, unites and carves new paths in this springtime.
*Let a walk take you into the beauty of spring within your yard or neighborhood, alone or with your child or partner.
*Carry your water bottle filled with water or let your child carry it and explain why this water walk today.
*Give thanks to water and make an offering of water to a plant or tree.
*Listen to Sister Water as to when and where to take another Water Walk of Gratitude.
Water Wisdom from the sacred book of the Tao Te Ching.
The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.When you are content to be simply yourself
and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.When you are content to be simply yourself
and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people’s greatest help.
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people’s greatest help.
True words seem paradoxical.