Dog Psalm #101

Release your worries
to a power greater than yourself.

Dog Psalm #100

To experience joy is to serve God.

Dog Psalm #98

Put your paws together and pray.

Dog Psalm #68

Know your own soul.

Dog Psalm #67

Look inward for insight.

Dog Psalm #28

When I am still

I can hear a great, quiet voice

gently remind me

Fear not, all is as it should be.

I do not need to cling or run.

Acceptance is the path to peace.

Dog Psalm #20

I reside along side The Great Spirit.

Sunday Mountain is our abode.

The sky is our window on heaven.

Grace is the snow that sparkles beneath our feet.

In the solace of silence faith is recovered.

Dog Psalm #19

Bathe in the light.

Catch rays at every opportunity

on brilliant winter mornings or in the glooming.

Rest in it.
Restore in it.

Those moments when the Great Spirit

can touch you with beams of
warmth, strength, hope.

Moments of recognition and hope that

energize your spirit

 

Light is a source that can cause

your aura to glow.

Embrace and allow it.

Go forth and illuminate.

Dog Psalm for Haiti

May humanity save us all.

May grace lift our spirits

and courage accompany us
those trapped and suffering,
those rescuing and hindered.

May we not be voyeurs to suffering

but solutions to catastrophes.

May we each

GIVE

all that we can.

May we recognize and respond to the fact that
Haiti will need our support for many years to come.

May helpers embrace humility.
Haiti is our teacher. Her lesson?
How to begin, yet, again. And again, again.

Great and Holy Spirit
be constantly present with us.
We call upon you.

Dog Psalm #18

After all the feasting,

the giving and receiving,

comes the time for reflecting and resting

and deciding how best to carry the Spirit of the season

throughout the new year

Behold

 

Miracles arrived at their appointed time.

 

The Seed Babe brings Glad Tidings.

His tiny hand reaches out to hold all of humanity.

His message - care for each other.

Share love. Have hope.

Thanksgiving

Let there be gravy and community.

Let there be laughter and music.

Let there be feasting and grazing

and generous table scrap giving.

I am grateful for kindness, comfort and care.

Grateful for naps in the big comfy chair.

Dog Psalm 16: Three Wise Women

 

A great wind began to blow and howl.

The night was ink black with one piercing star lighting the way.

The three wise women knew it was time to begin a long journey 

 towards a great unknown. They ventured forth on faith.

They knew they had arrived at their destination when they discovered

the seed babe resting on a birch bark blanket.

Behold. The savior has arrived.

He reaches out for us to tell us

he needs us and to remind us we need him.

I thought he arrived in December.  But it seems he can arrive at anytime.

Dog Psalm 15: The power of Myth

WONDERING

How could a mouse carry that enormous

4 armed

man-elephant-deity

Ganesh?

He's hardly 4 inches tall.

He's remarkably sturdy even without feet

but still...

How is it possible? How can I believe?

  

OH! He's a God in his own right,

an agent of transformation.

 

That's why he wears the fancy coat

and always brings something to offer.

He does smell sacred.

Dog Psalm 14

God is here.

In this stone wall.

 

In the mind that planned it.
In the hands that made it.

In the earth that it holds.

In the people and animals who pass by

and those who stop to rest or play.

In the rain that will wash it.
In the snow that will fall on it.

In the sun that dries it.
In our moments together.

I find you, Great Spirit, everywhere.
Or is it that you find me? 
I am so grateful for your nearness.

Dog Psalm #11

Dear Creator,

I send to you and to all who might hear and heed

Jane Goodall's words,

"If only we can over come cruelty, to human and animal,

with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold

of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution -

and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity"

Dog Psalm #10

Creator and Ruler of mankind,

we pray

for our humanity

that a new life

may be established

in the way of Good.

That all hatred and malice,

all indifference to the suffering of others,

all narrow exclusiveness and selfish greed

may be swept away

by a breath of Spirit,

and that

Public Spirit,

honor and justice,

cooperation in service,

and self sacrifice

for the good

of the whole people

may flourish

abundantly

among

us.

For this we pray.

Towards this we work.

Dean A.G.H. Bode is the inspiration & source of this Psalm

Dog Psalm #9

Great Spirit,
I saw you on Sunday Mountain.

You bathed me in rain.

You warmed me with the sun.

You watched over me as I slept in the bossom of my family.

 

Thank you for wonderful, rejuvenating days.

Sunday Dog Psalm #8

Great Spirit:
It is believed, and not just by me, that
my dew claw is a thumb waiting to happen.
I understand I must accomplish my dog life before I return with thumbs.
I must watch and learn.
Love and communicate without speech.
In my next incarnation when I will be a human
please guide me Great Spirit
in transferring my canine-ly, devine
understanding of humanity.
Don't let my thumbs undo me.