In 1887 Chief Yellow Lark of the Sioux Indians translated an Indian prayer into English. How refreshing it would be to hear such a plea for strength, strength to overcome that greatest enemy. Certainly, it is a prayer we hear little or nothing of.
People still pray for strength to help face suffering and problems of a thousand different kinds.
Well, you say, under the conditions of those times it took great valor to face combat and dangers that now arise mainly in wartime when the soldier similarly prays for the will to carry out his duties, to the death, if necessary. Yet I feel old Chief Yellow Lark had not lost sight of a deeper and far more significant truth than the need for courage in a dangerous world. So that when life fades as the fading sunset, My spirit may come to you without shame. Of course, you reply, we all have a personality which pretty obviously dies at our physical death . . . And thus the prayer might be discussed with the majority of people these days.