Daily Devotion - Thursday, February 5

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“I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever;
with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.”
--An old hymn of God’s people (Psalm 89:1)

Several hundred years ago in North America there were some native Americans who were known as the Ojibwa y. The Ojibwa y were religious people who, from all that is presently known, had developed their religious belief system without European or Middle Eastern influences. The Ojibwa y were people who lived along the St. Lawrence Seaway. As European exploration came to them, they were uprooted and began their own westward migration that led them into what we now know as the northern parts of Minnesota. Today, we know the Ojibwa y as the Chippewa Indians. Their beliefs are reflected in this prayer:

Grandfather, look at our brokenness.
We know that in all creation only the human family has strayed from the Sacred Way.
We know that we are the ones
Who must come back together to walk in the Sacred Way.

Grandfather,
Sacred One,
Teach us love, compassion and honor
That we may heal the earth
And heal each other.

Ben Keckler
02.05.09