This prayer honours those affected by the catastrophic glacier-triggered floods and landslides, while search and rescue work continues across Nepal. A Prayer for Nepal 🙏🏼 E ngā maunga tapu o Himalaya, e ngā awa e rere nei i waenga i te whenua awhinatia mai a Nepal. Where ice has fallen, where rivers have risen, where villages have vanished beneath water and earth let the living be found. Guide the rescuers through broken roads, unstable mountains and buried valleys. Strengthen every hand that digs, every voice that calls, every heart still listening for an answer. Gather those who have crossed the veil. May they be received gently by their ancestors and their gods. Hold the families who wait beside empty doorways, the children searching for parents, the parents calling the names of their children. May food reach the hungry. May shelter rise for the displaced. May clean water, medicine and courageous hands move swiftly into every isolated place. Ancient mountains, steady yourselves. Wild rivers, soften your passage. Sacred Earth, make room for mercy. From Aotearoa, we send our aroha across the great waters not as pity, but as kinship. Nepal, you are not unseen. Your grief is heard. Your people are held within the great circle. May hope emerge from the mud, May the missing return. May the broken villages rise again. Kia tau te rangimārie. Kia ū te kaha. Kia hoki mai te māramatanga. May peace descend. May courage remain. May light return. Spoken as it is stated and so it is. 🕊️🇳🇵🙏🏼