Good Night Prayer

This is the daily prayer my children Nai and Kay will recite before they go to sleep each night:

'Thank you God for a beautiful and wonderful day
Thank you God for the love I received today
Thank you Mother Earth for the rain and sunshine
Thank you Mother Earth for the delicious food
Thank you God for all the blessings in my life
May good be for all
May all be happy
May all be healthy
Ooommm Shanti(Peace to all)'

For me, when I pieced the good night prayer together for my children, it was meant to be a prayer of thanks with thots of loving kindness. That we do not take for granted all that we have received during the day and to share the goodness with all.

But the children's sunday school day teacher thot otherwise. Kay told me last nite after the prayer the teacher said that she cant be praying to other gods. I explained to Kay with an illustration. I told her to imagine that God was our hand with my five fingers. The little finger takes care of nature and we call it Mother Earth. "Mother" because that is what mothers do; they feed and care for us. So Mother Earth is also God. And who is to say that God is male and not a female. Anyway that is not the issue. We are only concerned about the attributes of God and that we teach our children to love Mother Earth and to care for the environment through not littering, recycling, planting trees...