My dance is my prayer and in the garden, I dance as I am praying to Life...

Because: (taken from the book Return of the bird tribes by Ken Carey)

As you thank God for the people and ideas that helped to make these centuries much better than the worst they could have been, thank also the deities of the Sky, Sun, Moon and Star.

Thank the deities that live within the Trees, that bubble forth the Springs that give you your water to drink, that ripen the wheat, the corn, the potato in the field. For all these deities, ignored though they have been, have continued to exercise a benevolent influence, and have helped lighten for you, the trauma of these past centuries. Speaking in whispers here and there, as gentle voices in your dreams, as soothing images from the trees outside your window as you drift at night into sleep, in a myriad of unnoticed ways, they have come to you and taken the edge off your aggressiveness. Thank them. They have forestalled many sorrows. Honour and revere them. They are the servants of God.

Though these are the same deities the Tuatha De Danann honored on the shores of Killarney, the same deities the druids thanked with their first cup of water at every bubbling forest spring, the same beings the African Bushmen and Australian aborigines call upon today, they are not “pagan” gods. They are helpful beings, essential energies, not one of which lacks consciousness. They are specific ways that God has chosen to serve you in this material world. Every time you give reverence to any one of these you honor God.

You are perhaps the only people that have not a name for these subtle essences of divinity. Forming the great pantheon of wonder, vibrating and scintillating like the colors of the rainbow, they unite in a single Great Spirit, the same Christ, the same Wakan Tanka, the same eternal star fire love, the spark everywhere honored as the source of life.

In this new world of Light, see God in all things. Understand that to honor any aspect of God is to honor God. Let reverence be not reserved solely for an image in your church or consciousness. Extend it to every sparrow, every child every flower. Give it to every pebble sparkling on the beach.

Honor the spirit of God, not in the abstract, but in your sisters, in your brothers and in your own heart. Give freely of your reverence. Give it to the bushbuck in the forest, to the eagle who winds her way through the mountain passes, to the beaver who loves every moment of his life. This is how you honor God, by honoring all created things. Give thanks to these many beings that have made this age so much brighter for you. Give them your love. See them in every shaft of moonlight and in every forest glade.

You are the way that God becomes human, the way that God tends the garden. You are the way that God interacts with the universe of creation.

Now see how the negative forces are devouring and attacking this Universe of creation.

The war is against the myriad of beings that form the spirit of God.

Do we really want to live in four walls cutting us off from God? We live in a time of volatility, where if we do not start making those right decisions we will end up in a world without God and that can only be hell!

Reverence for Life starts with our own individual daily choices!

Do we choose to eat genetically modified foods and artificial nutrients? Do we choose to fill our empty cars with the source of Life itself and drive it out at our luxury?

How conscious are our choices?

And do you know who you pray to and if you not praying, why not?