Messages from Grandmother MoonRiverStar

While walking straight into the incessant northerly winds, she promised herself she would remember.
She promised herself she would  continue to feel in her dancing soul the quality of mountain spirit.
This would assure her alignment with  feeling safe and centered in the deepest heart beat of  mother earth.
Whispering in her softest voice, she lifted her head up to the solitary cedar tree growing in her yard, (now, practically half her own age).  She then recited a prayer her grandmother moonriverstar sung
when she was a small child.

Grandmother  Moonriverstar Prayer:

never leave the province of your truest heart
you will never be lost
and you will never feel scared
blessings are carried in the blood
and bones surely are scented with
the sacred flavor of ancestors
whose heart beat matches
the drumbeat throughout
the canyon, flinging stones
rising high into the turquoise sky
blessed purple shapes dart
reminding all who remain still
that to live a life with integrity
is the most difficult and yet
the most honoring of all teachers
spirits and guides who no longer
are limited by being in a body vessel
but are free to fly throughout lifetimes
gently coaxing us all to continue
to walk tall and trust the beauty
which is all of us when we get
out of the way of having
to prove another blessed thing
~amen,
words/photo~kate lamberg (c) '14