Prayja Vu 2: Another Rich Past Prayer Collection

Morning prayers and prayers for moving through the day. Graces. Prayers before an astrology reading and prayers for peace. Quotes and other thoughts on gratitude. Here is a reprise of 2015's Prayer Month that includes traditions from pagan to Native American, from Buddhist to Jewish and interdenominational. Best of all, a prayer to end your prayers and sent them up to the heavens.

Prayer and Gratitude Month 2015

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Thanksgiving Grace

Blessed be the Earth for providing us this food.

Blessed be the Sun for helping it to grow.

Blessed be the Wind and Birds for carrying its seed.

Blessed be the Rain for the water’s loving flow.

Blessed be the hands that helped prepare this meal.

May those hands and our hands, bodies too, be well and quick to heal.

Blessed be our friends, our families, and all of our loved ones.

For the meal we are about to eat,

for those that made it possible,

and for those with whom we are about to share it:

We are thankful.

In these plates of food, we see the entire universe supporting our existence.

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Prayer Credit: A collage of prayers researched and compiled by my dear friend, Janet Walden. Thanks, Janet

Thank you for being part of The Radical Virgo family. I am grateful.

Welcome the Day: The Prayer of Intention

I welcome this day and give thanks for

all of the gifts and blessings that I 

am, that I give, and that I receive. 

 

I am filled with grace, joy and possibility.

I celebrate, embrace and 

bless this life and my place in it.  

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Prayer Credits: Heard on NPR by my friend Linda Byrd. Linda is an astrologer and spiritual life coach you might want to get to know.  

Great Spirit Prayer

"Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.
 

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
 

Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice

Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

Help me seek pure thoughts and act with the intention of helping others.
Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,

but to fight my greatest enemy - Myself.
 

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,

my spirit may come to you without shame.

~Author Unknown

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Tradition: Native American

Recommendation from The Radical Virgo: Change terms as needed to fit your own belief system. There are so many names for Higher Power: God, Goddess, All That Is, Lord/Lady, Spirit and the Universe to name a few.

A Peace Prayer of Wonder and Surprise

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Grant me peace. Your most precious gift, and give me the will to proclaim its message to all the people of the Earth.

Although differences in thought and belief divide us, let love of truth and the pursuit of holiness, unite me with all life.

Strengthen the bonds of friendship among the inhabitants of all lands, and may the love of Your name hallow every home and every heart. May the one who makes peace in the heavens make peace for all.

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Photo: My great-niece Ana in wonder at the Menorah.

Tradition: Judaism

Recommendation from The Radical Virgo: Change terms as needed to fit your own belief system. There are so many names for Higher Power: God, Goddess, All That Is, Lord/Lady, Spirit and the Universe to name a few.

Prayja Vu: Past Prayer Collection

Prayer Month comes but once a year in November, but many of the prayers are wonderful to revisit. 

Here are 10 prayers and two articles from 2013. They range from traditional to astrological and cover many many spiritual orientations.

Past Prayers Worth Repeating

Dear Radical Readers,

Enjoy these favorite posts from previous years while I gather some new prayers and gratitude posts for 2016. I'm going back to doing a gratitude journal--always a great activity but especially in November. There are multiple prayers in the middle two links, so dig deep into the prayer pool. Our world and everyone in it needs more inspiration than usual in these times of upheaval and change.

A Prayer for Social Networking

Prayers from 2014

Prayers from 2013 

Harvest Thanks 

And as my favorite Facebook forward says--a familiar but slightly altered sign when you're "not out of the woods" yet with anxiety--Please don't feed the fears.

Thank you for you,
Joyce

Chalice Grace with Gestures

(Begin with hands folded, then follow the movements suggested by the prayer, ending with hands folded at the heart chakra, head bowed, in the universal gesture of Namasté.)

I lift my eyes up

And open my arms in thanks,

A chalice to catch the divine bounty,

That blesses me and replenishes me

Which I recirculate by nourishing others.

Namasté.       

 ~ © 2003 by Joyce Mason

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Universal Grace Before Meals

Bless us, Pure Love

And these your gifts

Which we are about to receive

From your bounty

Through All That Is.

Amen.

~Adapted from Catholic grace before meals


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Prayer for Moving Through My Day and Through the World

Let me be willing to see the big picture in all things,

to act in accordance with my best, most ethical self,

and to grant the benefit of the doubt

to all those I meet.

~ Thanks to Interfaith Prayers and  Blessings

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My Morning Prayer

Bless this day
keep me safe and whole
kind and compassionate

Bless my path today
Help me to act with wisdom
and to live in perpetual gratitude

Bless my human family
who are everywhere and everyone
Bless the creatures and plants 
May all life be blessed on this day.

~ Thanks to Interfaith Prayers and  Blessings

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