{"id":163,"date":"2023-03-24T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/?p=163"},"modified":"2023-03-24T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:04:04","slug":"prayer-for-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/prayers\/prayer-for-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Spirit, hear my prayer,<br \/>\nAs it is written in the sacred text of Isaiah,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Help us to remember the teachings of our ancestors,<br \/>\nTo walk in the way of You, our Creator,<br \/>\nTo follow the path of righteousness,<br \/>\nAnd to care for all creatures great and small.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>May we be guided by Your wisdom and Your love,<br \/>\nAnd may we find our way back to the flock,<br \/>\nIn unity, in harmony, and in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Great Spirit, bless us with Your grace,<br \/>\nAnd lead us on the right path,<br \/>\nSo that we may live in harmony with all of creation,<br \/>\nAnd fulfill our sacred duty as caretakers of this beautiful land.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of the Great Spirit, the Merciful Son, and the Holy Spirit. Aho.<\/p>\n<p>(compare Isaiah 53:6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Spirit, hear my prayer, As it is written in the sacred text of Isaiah, &#8220;We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way&#8221; Help us to remember the teachings of our ancestors, To walk in the way of You, our Creator, To follow the path of righteousness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}