Message For Tomorrows Prayer - Flat Fire August 2025
The land is going through what it must, things are cracked open...
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Message for tomorrow's prayer:
because the wildfires have ravaged the land around our home,
the air remembers
that death is everywhere,
you can let go of that for now.
You have taken care of all you can care for,
the children
the pets
the neighbors and friends.
The land is going through what it must,
things are cracked open,
made into smaller charcoal bodies of themselves.
The canyon across the street where the fire made its way
with firefighters guiding, punching it back down the steep rim,
is now a river of what was,
but it’s also making its own prayers of rebirth,
for its own many tomorrows.
You can let the land pray through you,
though it’s strafed and smoldering,
it is still a blessing embodied.
Eat and rest,
let aching make its way out of your body,
come home,
trust again.
In this life of being and becoming
and coming apart again,
there will always be moments like this,
when suffering and love
mix together to break us open,
make us fall back into who we truly are.
Let your bare feet rest in the dirt again,
let tomorrow's prayer rise up in you anew,
it will be known,
it will be received.