Day
2. December 11th 2019
Prayer for
Today
Prayers and smoke up
for the days journey ahead. Creator, we send thanks of gratitude
for Jims vision and all who are supporting this. This is
for us all... for our ancestors, the women, men, children
and the horse nation. Those that never got to heal, those
present and afar that need the healing, and for those to
come.
Let us remember and
honour those that have gone before us. Let us listen to
the messages they are sending and allow our actions to be
of love, forgiveness, and a path to healing. Please allow
this day to bring us all together as one so that we can
begin to heal more deeply. Remove our bitterness, our sadness,
and all that blocks us from living free in heart. Allow
each step of the horse nation to remind us why we are here
and share the goodness in us all. Allow us to hear the prayers,
the messages, and to feel the love from others and for all.
We thank you for the
volunteers, the support staff, the warm accommodations,
and all of the meals for our riders and our horses.
Please protect and guide each and every one. Show anyone
that is hurting the healthy path they need for relief. Let
no brother or sister feel alone on this journey. Remind
them they are loved, worthy, and we honour and respect their
sacrificies today and always
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo Nichols
Day
3. December 12th 2019
Prayer
for Today:
Good morning
relatives,
Creator today as Father sky has blessed Mother Earth and
all upon her with a winter blanket that is beautiful to
most of us,and Grandfather Sun is reflecting off of it allowing
our eyes to witness shimmering rays of crystal snowflakes.
The plant nation has been given some cover for the new life
that will come in Spring. The tree nation, four-legged,
winged ones, swimmers, crawlers and even the two-legged
may have additional water sources when the thaw begins.
Icicles dangling from the mane,nostriles,and eyelashes of
the horse nation may not feel good,but it tells a story
in and of itself. As darkness surrounds, Grandmother Moons
beauty lights the way for those still stirring about, and
protects others during their slumber. This is the beauty
some are blessed to see and experience,but there is another
side. A side that most don't acknowledge, know of, or discuss.
Our ancestors
endured horrific experiences along this same path some see
as just a beautiful moments captured in time.
Creator
I offer humbled prayers for the healing of our ancestors
that were taken from us,the teachings,the traditions,the
pain,and sorrow. Be with them and our horse nation carrying
our brothers and sisters along this journey today, as they
travel that same path, headed this time toward healing and
reconciliation. A moment where we honor their sacrifices.
Allow them all to experience the beauty, the togetherness,
the love, and the power of the prayers for healing, a little
more, as each day evolves. Let us all travel this path toward
healing so that the beauty is seen and felt from the heart,
and that the pretty picture becomes, in fact, a reality
for all. The beauty is of family willing to sacrifice so
much for us all to heal seven back and seven forward. That
is the true beauty of this ride for me. The unselfishness
of so many that are showing the world how to honour, why
to honour, and what pretty pictures really look like.
Please protect and embrace every element of this ride. Allow
us to reconnect with our spirits and honor those that came
before us, those making this journey, and the ones coming
after us.
Honour, respect, love, and hugs to all that are part of
our healing.
Mo
Day
4. December 13th 2019
Prayer for
today
Good morning relatives,
So much gratitude for you all.
Today we are blessed by the full feminine energy of Grandmother
Moon so today I ask Creator for that same strength, beauty,
love, determination, and light that our feminine ancestors
carried through each and every step of pain, sorrow, grief,
and suffering. How they fought so hard to carry on each
day, having lost so much and so many, some being alone,
providing for self and caring for others in new ways to
survive. That's what I humbly pray today. That we may each
make that connection to the teachings of our grandmothers,
mothers, aunts, sisters, and elders. When the time comes
that we have no-one, our masculine warriors are gone, we
know in our hearts we too are warriors, and when connected
to our ancestors and Creator we honour the feminine ones
that came before, we stand proud with humbled hearts, and
do what we must.
May Grandmother watch over each of our riders, the horse
nation, the volunteers, and the support staff as they all
peacefully rumble upon Mother Earth today.
Honour and respect
Mitakue Oyasin A'ho.
Mo
Day
5. December 14th 2019
Prayer
for today
Good morning
relatives, I said a prayer for you today
May the sun shine brightly, may there be little moisture
in the air, may the winds gently carry our words as Mother
Earth absorbs our wounds.
May Creator protect all whom ride to a place that honours
our ancestors very lives, and bring comfort to all who have
sacrificed so much to make peace over a very bad time.
May each
stop be filled with warm furnishings, plentiful supplies,
healing interactions, and restful nights sleep.
May the
circle continue to grow, and the blessings to unfold; for
today and everyday you show us all how to become free
Love, honour,
and respect
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
6. December 15th 2019
Prayer for
Today:
Blessings to all
Creator, may the day be filled with the abundance that comes
with our prayers of hope. Hope for acknowledgement, healing
and reconciliation; for when hope is alive, positive action
is taken, the results will be powerfully beyond our imagination.
I humbly ask you to hear all of our prayers. Provide our
riders, horse nation, volunteers, support staff, and admin
team everything you know they need.
Ease the hearts of our
brothers and sisters that they are carrying during this
journey. Let them know we are all with them, they are not
alone in this journey.
We hear the cries, we feel the sorrow, and we carry the
hope for better days. The old ways are the ways where hope
is knowledge, gratitude, understanding, honour, and connectedness
to all that is.
And so it is
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
7. December 16th 2019
Prayer
for Today:
Creator
we offer prayers and smoke up. Tobacco down. Thank you for
another day to walk upon our sacred mother, heart to heart
with all. Our hearts are filled with gratitude for the prayers,
support, and love that our ancestors, brothers, sisters,
volunteers, staff and horse nation are being surrounded
with. I hope that with each gently powerful hoofbeat a little
more of the darkness is released. Where that darkness once
lived upon the land and our ancestors experienced such horrors
may light, love, forgiveness, and healing prevail. May we
remember, carry honour and respect in our hearts and never
allow such actions to be repeated. May our ancestors be
as proud of us as well are of them.
Ride well, today, family. We are with you in prayer and
spirit. With a humbled heart and much gratitude... thank
you
Mitakue Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
8. December 17th 2019
Prayer for
today
Good morning relatives
prayers and smoke up tobacco down.
Creator surround our families out here riding for us all
with warmth, safety, and the strength of our ancestors.
The determination that our grandmother's and theirs had
to overcome and preserve through times and situations that
others had placed them in. These were events that no two
legged need ever experience again. In times of fear, uncertainty,
tragedy, and sorrow those that remained upon Mother Earth
dug deep like the boar and did everything they had to continue
for themselves and us.
On this day I pray we
honour that determination. We remember those that nurtured
us, carried us into this lifetime supported and protected
the sacred ways of life. Many suffered so much and yet they
still gave so much to us. Allow us today to bring the memories
of them along and surround them with love, honour, and respect.
Give them the knowing that we honour their sacrifices. We
love them so. Those that were taken from us too soon we
acknowledge your pain, your cries and we live and ride peacefully
to bring healing across the land for you and for your spirit.
Our brothers and sisters are riding for you today. Riding,
praying, honouring. We carry your spirit with us upon the
ride, in our thoughts, and always in our hearts. Be free
and know we are doing this for you, for us, and for the
future ones.
Love, honour, and respect
Ride safe, ride proud, ride knowing the healing is happening
Mitakue Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
9 December 18th 2019
Prayer
for today
Blessings
on this beautiful day. Gratitude to Creator for another
day to receive the breath.
May everyone rest today, receive warmth for body and spirit,
good food, quality shelter and hay for the horse nation,
and have some activities to release the mind.
We thank each and everyone involved in this journey. Unless
we are out there we have no idea what the experience really
is so I offer prayers and smoke up, tobacco down.. Creator
knows what is needed and I humbly ask that it is received
by each of you.
May our prayers and thoughts continue and may our warriors
feel those so their body, mind, and spirit can continue.
Love, hugs, honour, and respect
A'ho
Mitakuye Oyasin
Mo
Day
10, December 19th 2019
Prayer for
Today
Good morning relatives,
On this brisk morning let us give thanks for all of the
beauty and blessings we are able to experience.
A few yesterdays ago there was so much hatred and bloodshed
upon our lands that there was little beauty to be seen.
Because one brother walked a path with Creator and connected
with our ancestors we have an opportunity to connect with
the same and bring beauty and blessings across the land
once again. Beauty not only seen through the eyes, but beauty
felt from the soul. The spirits of our ancestors being honored,
being brought on a journey from pain and horror to a place
of love ,togetherness, forgivess, and reconciliation. A
time to allow their voices to be heard, their pain and sacrifices
to not be in vain. A journey that allows our hurts to heal
a bit, and leave those that come after us a little less
hurt. Creator allow this beautiful journey to affect every
heart upon this land. Allow us to open to the beauty within
and around. Allow every stomp of the horse nations hooves
to rattle the darkness within us and allow it to fall away
into a place of forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation.
Protect our family showing us how generational trauma affects
us, how we can heal, how
love wins, and how when we unite the ripple is spread across
the land. Open us all to the wisdom that this journey is
riding with. Embrace our family with the determination and
strength that our grandmothers had. Allow them to feel the
loving feminine energy embracing them like only a grandmother
could. Allow us all to connect to the wisdom of the elders.
Open our eyes and our hearts to the beauty of the grandmother's.
Let the young ones be open to the teachings of their grandmothers.
It is an honour so many of us were not given. We know, however,
that when pray and listen those grandmother's can be heard.
Love, honour, repect, and gratitude from Texas
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
11, December 20th 2019
Prayer
for Today
Blessings
relatives, Creator we thank you for the love, support, safety,
and strength of our riders, staff, voluteers, and horse
nation. Please surround everyone on this journey with a
day of respect and honor. Give them all they need, help
ease the pains, the sorrow, and the weight. They are traveling
their first day in the state where many more are gathered
with support. Help them feel that. May Grandfather Sun warm
all bodies with enough energy to carry them through their
cold nights. May Grandmother moon watch over them in their
slumber, and the star nation be their messengers, until
the new light shines again.
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
12, December 21st 2019
Prayer
for Today
Good
morning relatives
Creator we offer gratitude for everything you have given
us today. Our brothers and sisters are doing so much good
for us all... giving voices to the voiceless, showing strength,
dignity, and honour. Showing the world what honour and respect
looks like in real time. Wrap them each in support, protection,
warmth, and hear their prayers.
We send love and respect to women riders that are there
honoring our ancestors. In times that are still not favorable
to women they are standing, riding and remaining strong.
We honour that. They are letting their voices be heard showing
us power with dignity.
We need them and we appreciate them.
May the
winds be gentle, the sun be warm upon them, and love surround
them all.
May warm nights rest and good food bless riders and horse
nation.
Much
gratitude to all that are part of this journey
Mitakue Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
13, December 22nd 2019
Prayer
for Today
Blessings
to all on this journey. We are in a cycle of longer darkness,
colder days, and less activity. Deep inside we have an understanding,
a hope and a vision that our days will become brighter,our
hearts warmer and our actions bring healing.
The visions are unfolding before us. Let our brothers and
sisters continue this journey in safety, strength and peace.
Allow love, honour and respect to surround them as they
travel with and for our ancestors. Allow the strength and
weight of the horse nation to be felt across the lands where
damage was done to be filled with healing. Let us reconcile
a little more with each hoof placed upon the earth.
Love, honour, and respect
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
14, December 23rd 2019
Prayer
for Today
Good
morning relatives, Creator we offer prayers and smoke up
tobacco down on this beautiful day. We offer gratitude for
the team of volunteers, host, support staff, and admin team
all of whom are providing for our horse nation, brothers,
and sisters who are in prayer for our ancestors. Surround
them with the strength of heart, mind, spirit, and body
to continue this journey. We honour them today and always.
It's a great day to ride
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
15, December 24th 2019
Prayer
for Today
Good morning
relatives. Prayers and smoke up,tobacco down.
Many folks are running about gathering items for festivities,
fighting over items on wish lists, and practicing those
beautiful smiles to show in the days to come. Nothing wrong
with all that if that's what one does.
Meanwhile our brothers and sisters have traveled hundreds
of miles with the horse nation through wind, snow, cold,
and heartache to reach a place of reconciliation, forgiveness
and healing. A place that shows what fighting causes and
what it leads to. There will be "celebration."
A celebration of remembrance and honour that we have not
forgotten, but we are willing to heal, and that we carry
on the teachings, hear the voices, and know the love and
determination of our ancestors. A celebration that honours
those that sacrificed so much for us. Those that we carry
so our hearts can be freed a little more from heaviness
and begin to smile. Heart smiles those are the smiles we
should show the world. The "celebration" is when
we stand with Creator, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand
for the good of the land, the people, and the honour and
respect for those that love us, are still with us in spirit,
and we live to make proud by remembering, and honouring
them.
This is what makes this Texan proud...following a journey
that literally demonstrates sacrifice, honour, and respect
to those worthy and deserving! Never forgetting those that
have gone before us and healing for those that come after.
It is an honour to follow and participate in this.
Let the wind be gentle and at your backs, let the sun give
you warmth, and let hooves create a rumble that is felt
in Mankato from afar. We are almost there. Ride proud relatives
there is much love being sent to you.
Mitakuye
Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
16, December 25th 2019
Prayer for
Today
Prayers and smoke up
tobacco down.
Merry, happy day. Creator may everyone get rest, and spend
time surrounded by peace and love on this beautiful day.
May drums and songs be heard near and far, good food nourish
the bodies of two and four legged, and shelter be sturdy
and warm. May prayers be lifted and smoke clear.
We give many thanks for the safety of this ride. For all
of the sacrifices that have been made by the riders, horse
nation, volunteers, support staff, hosts, and supporters.
We honour our ancestors and their sacrifices. We give many
thanks for making this journey with us. For we know that
they are with us. Our brothers and sisters have brought
them so far...almost home. Home to a place of reconciliation.
Creator please let us move forward in peace, love, and honour
for all.
Mitakue Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Day
17, December 26th 2019
Prayer
for Today
Blessings
on this powerful day. Prayers and smoke up tobacco down.
Creator may the experiences of this ride make all of our
new days more connected...Connected to our sacred Mother
Earth, our ancestors, our history, each other, and you.
Today we honour everyone in the physical and spirit world
that is home. We give thanks and gratitude for the sacrifies,
the determination, the guidance, and the visions. We honour
the relationships past and the new ones made. Today we will
stand together, or support from afar, with deep respect
for our ancestors. We honour their lives.
Awareness
has been brought across the nation's of history that should
never be forgotten. We have arrived at a place to honour,
reconcile, and heal. May the experiences of each one of
us witnessing give us that openness of heart to do what
is right by our teachings.
May the circle created today be strong and never broken.
May tears shed be cleansing, may heavy hearts be lightened,
may spirits that were lost know a sense of togetherness.
We honour and respect the Dakota 38+2, the circle, the horse
nation, all of the riders, supporters, host, and volunteers.
Welcome home, be proud with humbled hearts: today marks
a day of new beginnings of honour.
Blessings, love, and gratitude
With deep honour and respect for all of you
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo
Thanks
again Mo! xx
