Prayer Stones
~ Eternal Earth ~

Ken James McLeod

Prayer Stone © Ken James McLeod

There in a little cleft of rocks and sand thereupon the river gravel bar, 
      Lay rather a unique looking stone dissimilar from ones I'd seen afar.
Tho only a stone, its granite was molded by eons of river and foam,
       And there was power and energy in it from its eternal roam.

Now, in my hand I hold this stone,
       And swallow strength from the earth to the marrow of my bone.
How glad I be to walk this zone,
       Giving thanks to all the splendor that is . . . in earth-like home.

Native American Indians believe that the earth is all powerful, that the Creator breathed life into all things.  When some Indians pray to their maker, they hold a stone in their hand symbolizing the strength of the earth and all that it be.  When I grasp my prayer stone in the palm of my hand, I  can feel the strength of the earth to the depths of my soul.

KJM
(McPilchuck)
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