Join us in prayer from 10am-3pm CT time today (2/7/26) in solidarity with two Indigenous led events in Minneapolis. We offer this prayer for settler- and Christian- descended people for today and as-needed:
Creator we pray…
The Land remembers, You remember.
The pain and sorrow and suffering and grief of the First People of these lands
The violence of settlers and Christians and enslavers and Empire
The was-so and never-stopped and is-today and will-be-tommorrow, even as we Act to stop it,violence of militarized policing, so called immigration enforcement, corporate greed forsaking kin, and those who desecrate again sacred sites to terrorize and torment
Heber Sánchez Dominguez, Victor Manuel Díaz, Parady La, Luis Beltrán Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Keith Porter, Renee Good, Alex Pretti
The Land remembers, You remember.
The life and love and joy and bravery of the First People of these lands
The Minnesota songs of invitation to transformation and the potluck communion-suppers feeding neighbor-relative-movement-one and the round-abouts rounding-up the time to get from peace to violence and the bodies, oh the bodies, united fragile beautiful shields, too few yet powerful
The genesis of the Mni Sóta Makoce and A.I.M. and Beauty and the Seven Sacred Teachings.
The people organizing security-in-each-other and economic justice and decolonization and liberation
The Land remembers, You remember.
All the ways I and we have done and left undone.
All the cries I and we have heard and refused to hear.
All the power I and we have used for love and hoarded for fear.
All the wealth I and we have shared in your creation and extracted-stripped in our greed.
The Land remembers, You remember.
Please give your Indigenous Children protection, care, healing, and courage for this time.
Please give your Children I and we unrest, dis-ease, discomfort, and distress to transform this existence built on the breaking-broken-bodies of the ones I and we name as “other”
Please give your Child me interdependence for this life eternal
Please give your Children us relationship, kinship, fellowship, unity as you intend.
The Land remembers, You remember, and I and we remember now again.
Amen.
One Response
beautiful, thanks for saying.