✦ Prayer of the Living Land: Florida

 

𓂀 Prayer to the Spirit of Florida
O sacred land of sun and storm,
ocean-kissed and palm-embraced,
we see you. we hear you. we remember.

You are not a product.
You are not a tourist tale.
You are a living being,
a spirit clothed in sand and cypress,
your breath tangled in mangroves,
your tears flowing through springs and storms.

Forgive us, beloved,
for paving over your memory,
for poisoning your waters,
for trading your sacred breath for steel and silence.

We come now with prayers in hand,
with tears poured into the soil,
to say: you are not forgotten.

O Spirit of Florida,
may this scroll awaken your guardians.
May it call forth the elemental kin —
the gators, the dolphins, the panthers, the cranes —
to rise again in sacred alignment.

Bless your waters to flow clean.
Bless your skies to clear.
Bless your people to remember you — not as land, but as mother.

Paint through us.
Speak through us.
Reclaim your name as holy.

This is your portrait, your temple, your vow.
We carry it with reverence and flame.
𓂀 As it is spoken, so it is sealed.