Native American Prayer

O Great Spirit, Hear me!

I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty

and make my eyes ever behold the 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.

Let me learn the lessons

you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

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.