A Native American healing prayer that helps me...

This one I repeat to myself every night in bed - it soothes me a bit and helps me fall asleep...

Healing Prayer

Mother, teach me how to heal
The feelings inside of me;
Teach me how to respect all life
with burgeoning humility.

Show me the path away from abuse,
where everything sings of life,
Where heartache is just a memory
Of ancient human strife.

Let my spirit be healed
Until dying holds no fear,
Where rebirth is welcomed;
Bringing me joyous tears.

These are the things that I desire,
For I want to truly know,
The Pathways and healing passage
Through the dark night of my soul.


from Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams

Healing Heartache

I looked to find my heart was breaking,
I could not stop the pain,
Not then,
or now.
In the place where trust had been,
Betrayal stood...alone...the victor.
My tears would have filled an ocean...
Had I had the strength to cry.

Privacy appears on my doorstep
with the night,
And with the night comes my loneliness
and my fear.

The Earth Mother's love has made me stronger,
so tonight I will let the hills hold me...
and my company will be the wind.

from Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams