Lady of the lake

We give thanks for the springs that bring life-giving water up from the ground, 
for the small streams and creeks, 
for the mighty rivers. 
We praise the beauty of water, 
the sparkle of the sunlight on a blue lake, 
the shimmer of moonlight on the ocean's waves, 
the white spray of the waterfall. 
We take delight in the sweet singing of the dancing stream and the roar of the river in the flood.
We ask help to know within ourselves all the powers of water: 
to wear down and to build up, 
to ebb and to flow, 
to nurture and to destroy, 
to merge and to separate. 
We know that water has great powers of healing and cleansing,
and we also know that water is vulnerable to contamination and pollution. 
We ask help in our work as healers, 
in our efforts to ensure that the waters of the world run clean and run free, 
that all the earth's children have the water they need to sustain abundance of life. 
Blessed be the water.

Written by — Starhawk in The Earth Path