Prayer for the Ancestors - Week of October 31, 2022
Beloved, may we pause to dust the ancestral photographs and tend the ancestral stones, to share the ancestral prayers and meditations, and to make offerings of gratitude, amends, and recognition of ancestral actions good, wrong, and mixed of curse and blessing. Beloved, may we pause to say their names, the ancestors who brought us forth, and to say the silences where we have broken transmission of knowledge, connection, or language. Beloved, may we offer prayers for the ancestors who have shaped us as they shaped this world, through their lives, and remember, we, too, are ancestors of the now and tomorrow, and our choices, our lives, shape the future. Beloved, may we choose to be better ancestors than we may have inherited, creating a more just and kinder world than they may have lived in, and offering love in word and deeds to the many generations ahead. Amen.
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