Native American Religion
STENATLIHAN
You are good! I pray for a long life. I pray for your good looks. I pray for good breath. I pray for good speech. I pray for feet like yours to carry me through a long life. I pray for a life like yours. I walk with people, ahead of me all is well. I pray for people to smile as long as I live. I pray to live long. I pray, I say, for a long life to live with you where the good people are. I live in poverty. I wish the people there to speak of goodness and to talk to me. I wish you to divide your good things with me, as a brother. Ahead of me is goodness, lead me on.
The Apache Wedding Blessing
Now you will feel no storms, for each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no loneliness, for each of you is companion to the other, You are two persons, but there is one life before you, and one home. Turn together to look at the road you traveled, to reach this---the hour of your happiness. It stretches behind you into the past. Look to the future that lies ahead. A long and winding, adventure-filled road, whose every turn means discovery, new hopes, new joys, new laughter, and a few shared tears. May happiness be your companion, May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead; And through all the years to come. Go this day to your dwelling place and enter into your days together. May your days be good and long upon the earth. Your adventure has just begun!
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently thorugh the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life.”
Listen to the wind...It talks...Listen to the silence...For it speaks...Listen with your heart...And you will learn and understand.
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand