Wisdom Family Songs

This first verse came to Wisdom Sun through Oliver’s Waldorf-inspired school, Golden Bridges. The teachers and children make hand mudras when saying this prayer, which is a great way for young children to memorize a verse—when their bodies are included, they have physical cues in their own bodies and visual cues in their parents, carers, or others who are reciting the verse, too. If you don’t know what gestures others are using, you can make some for your own family, maybe your children will come up with some good ones, too.

From Rose: “The Prayer To Honor Our World (below) is good to recite when you go out into nature. Especially when you travel from home to visit a different place, the first time you go for a walk there you can sing or recite this and thereby introduce yourself as a friend of the Earth and the local natural environment. When our family travels for weekends away or longer periods, we like to begin with a prayer to introduce ourselves to the land and show her that we respect her and will try to refrain from anything that may cause damage to her or the beings that live upon her while we are there. We make an offering of some kind of herb, usually trying to find a local herb that people use to relate with the earth in that area. When we leave a place we have stayed we make an offering to the earth and the local deities of milk and honey.”

Meal Offering, from Waldorf

Earth who gives to us this food,
Sun who makes it ripe and good
Sun above and earth below,
Our loving thanks to you we show.

Meal Offering to the Great Mother, Transcendent Wisdom

Inexpressible, inconceivable wisdom transcendent,
Birthless, deathless, space’s quintessence,
Experienced by deeply self-aware prajna,
O mother of the victors past, present, and future,
We make this offering to you.

Meal Offering, by Ari

Fire deity, residing in my belly,
I offer you this nutritious, delicious food,
So that you may miraculously transform it into the energy of consciousness and life.
May your magical activity benefit myself and others.

Prayer to Honor Our World, by Rose

We honor beloved Mother Earth and Father Sky—
May we protect and nurture the environment.
We honor the trees, plants, and animals—
May we protect and nurture these beloved beings.
May we strive for environmental justice.