Morning walk, Meru.
Mountain sunrise.
Yes, my God, you will save us:
Yes, my God, you will guide us,
and your thoughts will be with us night and day.
Grant us to remain a long time,
like the great wing of rain, like the long rains.
Give us the fragrance of a purifying branch.
Be the support of our burdens,
and may they always be untied,
the shells of fertility and mothers and children.
God be our safeguard, also where the shepherds are.
God, sky, with stars at your sides
and the moon in the middle of your stomach,
Morning of my God that is rising,
Come and hit us with your waters,
And God said, “all right.”
-Samburu, Kenya, from an African Prayer Book by Desmond Tutu
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