Friday, March 27, 2009
Daily Office Year 1, Romans 8: 29-39
Chapel of the Apostles
'Christ of the Pow-Wow'
Dancing with the sun in the azure sky,
Dancing in the dark nights where no moon or stars shine,
Dancing amid the pain and exhaustion of suffering our history,
Dancing the red path that God calls our people to walk,
Dancing on the prairie grass as the Spirit blows in the hot, dry wind,
Dancing our way of life into freedom and peace,
Dancing in death,
Dancing in life.
Nothing can separate us—no arrows, no bullets, no land, no water, no treaty, no
Nothing can separate us—no arrows, no bullets, no land, no water, no treaty, no
reservation, no nothing.
Nothing has ever separated us.
The nations are bound together in love, Christ’s love—Cheyenne and Mandan,
Lakota and Shoshone, Arapahoe and Blackfoot.
In the Great Circle of the Spirit
In the Great Circle of the Spirit
every nation, every tongue, every people
gather to keep our traditions breathing and balm our wounds.
In the circle we dance, we laugh, we cry, and we rejoice in life.
In the circle we dance, we laugh, we cry, and we rejoice in life.
The beat of the drum, the heart beat of mother earth,
the calling of the Chief of Peace unites us. The sage smoke
lifts up our prayer of praise, our hopes and our dreams for our children,
and blesses us in His presence.
The drum bids us to let go of our loss,
and blesses us in His presence.
The drum bids us to let go of our loss,
to let go of our anger,
to let go of ourselves and be united
as one in love, inside the circle…dancing.
Join with me and my great family,
today shall be our dancing day!
Come into the circle and dance.
Come into the circle and know the Christ of the Pow‐wow.
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N.B. This is an American Indian exegesis of the famous Romans text.
