I am adding this in to be passed along if you are able please...

UNITY POWWOW
At the invitation of Huntsville Town Council
Hosted by Chippewas of Rama First Nation and
Wasauksing First Nation
in Huntsville
With funding support from the Government of Canada
A National Aboriginal Day Event
Honouring World and G8 Leaders
For more information please contact:
Robin at 705-325-3611 ext. 1298
or visit www.huntsville.ca
Craft and Activity Market
Unity Powwow
Monday June 21st, 2010
Memorial Park, Huntsville, Ontario
Everyone Welcome
Grand Entry begins at 12:30 pm
5:30am
Powwow
Youth, Elder, Veteran, and
Environmental Forums
Food Market
Preference will be given to non-prot organizations for food vending
Memorial Field is located near Muskoka Heritage Place (at
88 Brunel Road) o Main Street near Forbes Hill Drive.
Sunrise Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies: Allan Manitowabi
Arena Director: Two Bears - Barry Stiles
Host Drum: Taabik Singers
Head Female Dancer: Bonnie Simcoe
Head Male Dancer: Emerson Benson Nanigishkung
Head Female Youth Dancer: TBA
Head Male Youth Dancer: TBA
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Fresh air, clean water for today
Fertile earth, fertile minds for tomorrow
to unify and sustain our planet

good idea....i will take this to another site

Thank -you - it is being put on by RAMA First Nation here in Canada, would like to reach all the Canadian people who may beable to attend, or tohers who are up to travel...

Thank you joni and Jean for this valuable information!

I've informed the German speaking members of lightgrid about June 12 as well :-)

Love and Light,

Sonja Myriel

thank you sonja....i do appreciate you my sweet sister :)

Chant to heal the Earth

Please Read!!!!


On June 12, at midnight EDT (11pm for us Central Folks) (9pm for the west coast) we are going to do a world wide chant to heal the gulf of Mexico.
Please chant this 9 times and we will push a strong stream of power into the healing of our gulf waters. This chant will be WORLD WIDE.
Here is a link for times in all areas of the world
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&da...
Thanks to all and Brightest Blessings
Brenda, Mert and Wendy


The Chant:

To the Gulf of Mexico
That We truly love
We Send a Powerful Healing
To all below and above
A cleansing of her Waters
All animals safe and sound
Carry our Energy of Healing
And healing will Abound
so be it...

Having faith is what we do between Miracles~

reposted so as not to get lost in the pages....tomorrow is the 12th!!!!

We are all ONE

Video contents
1. Speaker: Indigenous Native American Prophecy, Red Crow Westerman. Oren Lyons

2. (Planet Earth) Award-winning BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Alastair Fothergill

3. Soundtrack: From the movie Patch Adams. Contains Music by Various Artists, Marc Shaiman

Edited, synced and cut by: Anders Fredblad 4 december 2008 Sweden"

thanx so much sweetheart!
luv ya huge :)

http://www.theshiftcouncil.com/recording
link to the 13 grandmother council........

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Hidden From History: The Canadian Holocaust

Urgent Appeal and Breaking News:
RCMP want to question Kevin Annett about his website and writings concerning Missing Women


April 18, 2009
Vancouver, Canada:

On April 14, Cpl. Sabrina Mill of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's "E" Division Major Crime Section wrote to Rev. Kevin Annett and asked to meet with him regarding evidence Kevin has compiled and published concerning the disappearance of women in Vancouver's downtown eastside and the alleged involvement of RCMP officers in their abduction.

Cpl. Mill also expressed concern about unnamed "postings on your internet site or on sites associated to (sic) you."

In his written response dated April 14, Rev. Annett invited Cpl. Mill to make their discussion public by taking part in an open forum on the issue of police and RCMP complicity in the disappearance and death of aboriginal people, including in the Indian residential school system.

Kevin asked Cpl. Mill, in particular, to respond to the issue of the RCMP's "apparent refusal to investigate suspected crime sites related to the mass burials of children who died in Indian residential schools."

Cpl. Mill has not replied to Kevin's email and invitation.

Since the spring of 2001, Kevin has regularly addressed the evidence of police complicity in crimes against native people over the public airwaves on his radio program Hidden from History on Vancouver's Co-op Radio.

In 2006, Kevin published six statements from eyewitnesses who claim personal knowledge of police, church and government involvement in Vancouver-based pedophile rings, "snuff" films and child pornography. Kevin sent copies of these statements to the police and government and received no response for over three years, until Cpl. Mill's email.

The evidence published by Kevin Annett indicates that mass grave sites for the disposal of murdered women exist all over Vancouver, including at the Musqueam Indian reserve near the University of B.C. Forensically-examined bone remains exhumed at this reserve in 2004 indicate the presence of young females mixed with pig remains: a fact shared with the Vancouver police and RCMP but never acted on.

Last February, when identified crime sites containing the remains of children who died at the former Alberni Indian Residential School began to be unearthed and destroyed, the RCMP refused to stop the destruction or even conduct an investigation into the sites.

Kevin Annett has sent this evidence to international human rights agencies, INTERPOL and European politicians, and has called for an inquiry into the deeper truth of missing aboriginal women in B.C.

Please contact Cpl. Sabrina Mill at the numbers below and urge her to take part in the public forum and debate offered by Kevin Annett, and to answer the charges that the RCMP is complicit in the death of aboriginal women and children.

Cpl. Sabrina Mill
"E" Division Major Crime Section
12992 - 76th Avenue
Surrey, B.C. Canada
V3W 2V6
email: sabrina.mill@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Office: 604-598-5605
Fax: 604-598-4300

We also urge people to monitor this situation in case Rev. Annett is detained or placed in custody by the RCMP.

Issued 18 April, 2009
by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (Vancouver)

totally shocking and disgusting that this has been happening...i pray that justice is served..

Most all Nations have stories about the 'Sacred Pipe'. What many people refer to it as The Peace Pipe. Which is an incorrect Hollywood thought shown in the old west movies and cartoons. The Sacred pipe is to the Native Americans as the cross is to christian cultures.

The pipe, in one form or another, has come to most cultures around the world. Every group has used the pipe in one way or another and has stories of how they came to have it. The Lakota tell the story of the White Buffalo woman and how she first brought the pipe to them.
Just as the Tsalagi have this story.

It is not important how the pipe first arrived. Or who it came to first as all nations see themselves as the first to have this gift from creator. What is important is that the pipe is revered as a sacred item and also important is that it did come from The Creator. What is most important is that pipe was brought to all men of this world, for we all must share this world.
Long ago, but not long after the world was new, a tribe of red skinned people came to live on the lands which are around The Blue Smoke Mountains.

At this time, the animals of the world still talked to men and taught them how to live on and care for the land. These people were called " Ani Yun Wiya " or the One True People. In this tribe lived a brave warrior woman.

She was called 'Arrow Woman'. Arrow Woman was taught to use the bow, the spear and the knife. Even though it was a man's job to hunt and fight, Arrow Woman could shoot straighter with the bow than any man, she could throw the knife so as split a branch no bigger than your thumb and she could throw the spear into eye of a hawk in flight.
Because of all this, no man would tell her to be like a woman.

One day while on a hunt, Arrow Woman came upon the tracks of Yona the bear. She saw blood on the ground and knew him to be wounded so she followed his tracks. High into the mountains she followed. Soon she came to a place that she did not know. It was in this place, a place known only to the animals that she finally saw Yona the bear. He had a deep cut in his side and she saw him bowing down in prayer. She saw him bowing toward a large field of tall grass and speaking words that she had not heard before. Suddenly, the grass shimmered and became a lake. Arrow Woman saw Yona dive into the water. After a time he emerged from the water, his side was completely healed. Yona then saw Arrow Woman and walked to her. Yona told her, "this is the sacred lake of the animals. It is called, 'Atagahi' and it's location is known only to the animals. It is where we come for healing and strength. You are the first man creature to see the sacred lake.
You must never tell your kind of it's location for it is the home of 'The Great Uktena'. With these words Yona the Bear turned and walked into the woods and disappeared.

Arrow Woman was tired after following Yona all day so she decided to rest a while by this lake. She built a small fire and sat down to eat a meal that she had brought with her. She took a drink of the water from the lake and felt instantly refreshed. She was amazed, she felt strong as Yan'si the Buffalo. She felt as if she run faster than Coga the Raven could fly.

The woods were quiet, Unole the wind was sleeping, Nvda the sun was shinning bright but was not hot, the surface of the lake was completely calm, Arrow Woman began to get sleepy.

It was at this time that she saw 'Uktena', she had been told of him when she was a child but no one in her tribe ever claimed to have seen him. High above the water he raised his great serpent's head, the jewel in his forehead glistening.
He began to move toward her. Arrow Woman grabbed up her spear and stood up to face the great creature coming to her, standing proud, showing no fear, the way any warrior should. She raised her spear and prepared to strike the huge beast.

Uktena stopped a short distance from her. He smiled, his mouth was larger than a man was tall and full of teeth longer than man's forearm. He spoke to the brave woman on the bank of his lake. To her he said, "Put down your weapons for I mean you no harm. I come only to teach." Arrow Woman laid down her spear and began to relax, somehow knowing Uktena spoke truly.

Uktena told her to sit and to listen. Uktena dipped his head below the surface and came back up a moment later. In his mouth he had a strangely crooked stick and a leather pouch. These things he laid on the ground in front of Arrow Woman. Then the Great Uktena began to teach. He said,"This that I have laid before you is the Sacred Pipe of The Creator." He then told her to pick up the pipe. "The bowl is of the same red clay The Creator used to make your kind. The red clay is Woman kind and is from the Earth. Just as a woman bears the children and brings forth life, the bowl bears the sacred tobacco (tsula) and brings forth smoke. The stem is Man. Rigid and strong the stem is from the plant kingdom and like a man it supports the bowl just as man supports his family."

Uktena then showed Arrow Woman how to join the bowl to the stem saying, " Just as a man and a woman remain separate until joined in marriage so too are the bowl and stem separate. Never to be joined unless the pipe is used." Uktena then showed her how place the sacred tsula into the pipe and with an ember from the fire lit the tsula so it burned slightly. He told her this, "The smoke is the breath of The Creator, When you draw the smoke into your body, you will be cleansed and made whole. When the smoke leaves your mouth, it will rise to The Creator. Your prayers, your dreams, your hopes and desires will be taken to Him in the smoke. Also the truth in your soul will be shown to Him when you smoke the pipe. If you are not true, do not smoke the pipe. If your spirit is bad and you seek to deceive, do not smoke the pipe."

Uktena continued his lesson well into the night teaching Arrow Woman all of the prayers used with the pipe and all of the reasons for using the pipe. He finished just as the moon was beginning her nightly journey across the sky in search of her true love. He told Arrow Woman to wrap the pipe in cloth, keeping the parts separate. With this done He told her that she would never again be able to find this place but to remember all that she had learned. Uktena then returned to depths of the lake. Arrow Woman saw the water shimmer and become again the field of grass.
She left, taking with her the pipe and her lessons and a wondrous tale.

Ever since that time, The Ani Yun Wiya have used the sacred pipe and never again has any man seen the sacred lake of Uktena.


The pipe is not a symbol of things that are sacred. The pipe itself is sacred. Not everyone is called upon to be a pipe bearer. The person who carries the pipe and practices the pipe ceremonies and traditions has a great responsibility to his brothers and sisters, his land and country and even to the Earth Mother.

The pipe bearer does not 'own' the pipe he carries. He simply carries the pipe until the time comes for him to pass it to the next bearer. The pipe bearer is given certain powers of sight from the pipe as well as an ability to heal and purify. Should the bearer fall from grace and become a liar, thief, neglect his duties when asked, or become deceitful, the pipe would repossess these gifts and then the possibility of misfortune for the former bearer may exist.

One should be ready to accept the responsibility of the pipe for it may make demands upon you. It will become your teacher and guide. It can also be your worst enemy if used wrongly.
I leave it to you to decide if these words are truly said.
This is the way that I have learned.

as told by a Cherokee Elder

Most all Nations have stories about the 'Sacred Pipe'. What many people refer to it as The Peace Pipe. Which is an incorrect Hollywood thought shown in the old west movies and cartoons. The Sacred pipe is to the Native Americans as the cross is to christian cultures.

The pipe, in one form or another, has come to most cultures around the world. Every group has used the pipe in one way or another and has stories of how they came to have it. The Lakota tell the story of the White Buffalo woman and how she first brought the pipe to them.
Just as the Tsalagi have this story.

It is not important how the pipe first arrived. Or who it came to first as all nations see themselves as the first to have this gift from creator. What is important is that the pipe is revered as a sacred item and also important is that it did come from The Creator. What is most important is that pipe was brought to all men of this world, for we all must share this world.
Long ago, but not long after the world was new, a tribe of red skinned people came to live on the lands which are around The Blue Smoke Mountains.

At this time, the animals of the world still talked to men and taught them how to live on and care for the land. These people were called " Ani Yun Wiya " or the One True People. In this tribe lived a brave warrior woman.

She was called 'Arrow Woman'. Arrow Woman was taught to use the bow, the spear and the knife. Even though it was a man's job to hunt and fight, Arrow Woman could shoot straighter with the bow than any man, she could throw the knife so as split a branch no bigger than your thumb and she could throw the spear into eye of a hawk in flight.
Because of all this, no man would tell her to be like a woman.

One day while on a hunt, Arrow Woman came upon the tracks of Yona the bear. She saw blood on the ground and knew him to be wounded so she followed his tracks. High into the mountains she followed. Soon she came to a place that she did not know. It was in this place, a place known only to the animals that she finally saw Yona the bear. He had a deep cut in his side and she saw him bowing down in prayer. She saw him bowing toward a large field of tall grass and speaking words that she had not heard before. Suddenly, the grass shimmered and became a lake. Arrow Woman saw Yona dive into the water. After a time he emerged from the water, his side was completely healed. Yona then saw Arrow Woman and walked to her. Yona told her, "this is the sacred lake of the animals. It is called, 'Atagahi' and it's location is known only to the animals. It is where we come for healing and strength. You are the first man creature to see the sacred lake.
You must never tell your kind of it's location for it is the home of 'The Great Uktena'. With these words Yona the Bear turned and walked into the woods and disappeared.

Arrow Woman was tired after following Yona all day so she decided to rest a while by this lake. She built a small fire and sat down to eat a meal that she had brought with her. She took a drink of the water from the lake and felt instantly refreshed. She was amazed, she felt strong as Yan'si the Buffalo. She felt as if she run faster than Coga the Raven could fly.

The woods were quiet, Unole the wind was sleeping, Nvda the sun was shinning bright but was not hot, the surface of the lake was completely calm, Arrow Woman began to get sleepy.

It was at this time that she saw 'Uktena', she had been told of him when she was a child but no one in her tribe ever claimed to have seen him. High above the water he raised his great serpent's head, the jewel in his forehead glistening.
He began to move toward her. Arrow Woman grabbed up her spear and stood up to face the great creature coming to her, standing proud, showing no fear, the way any warrior should. She raised her spear and prepared to strike the huge beast.

Uktena stopped a short distance from her. He smiled, his mouth was larger than a man was tall and full of teeth longer than man's forearm. He spoke to the brave woman on the bank of his lake. To her he said, "Put down your weapons for I mean you no harm. I come only to teach." Arrow Woman laid down her spear and began to relax, somehow knowing Uktena spoke truly.

Uktena told her to sit and to listen. Uktena dipped his head below the surface and came back up a moment later. In his mouth he had a strangely crooked stick and a leather pouch. These things he laid on the ground in front of Arrow Woman. Then the Great Uktena began to teach. He said,"This that I have laid before you is the Sacred Pipe of The Creator." He then told her to pick up the pipe. "The bowl is of the same red clay The Creator used to make your kind. The red clay is Woman kind and is from the Earth. Just as a woman bears the children and brings forth life, the bowl bears the sacred tobacco (tsula) and brings forth smoke. The stem is Man. Rigid and strong the stem is from the plant kingdom and like a man it supports the bowl just as man supports his family."

Uktena then showed Arrow Woman how to join the bowl to the stem saying, " Just as a man and a woman remain separate until joined in marriage so too are the bowl and stem separate. Never to be joined unless the pipe is used." Uktena then showed her how place the sacred tsula into the pipe and with an ember from the fire lit the tsula so it burned slightly. He told her this, "The smoke is the breath of The Creator, When you draw the smoke into your body, you will be cleansed and made whole. When the smoke leaves your mouth, it will rise to The Creator. Your prayers, your dreams, your hopes and desires will be taken to Him in the smoke. Also the truth in your soul will be shown to Him when you smoke the pipe. If you are not true, do not smoke the pipe. If your spirit is bad and you seek to deceive, do not smoke the pipe."

Uktena continued his lesson well into the night teaching Arrow Woman all of the prayers used with the pipe and all of the reasons for using the pipe. He finished just as the moon was beginning her nightly journey across the sky in search of her true love. He told Arrow Woman to wrap the pipe in cloth, keeping the parts separate. With this done He told her that she would never again be able to find this place but to remember all that she had learned. Uktena then returned to depths of the lake. Arrow Woman saw the water shimmer and become again the field of grass.
She left, taking with her the pipe and her lessons and a wondrous tale.

Ever since that time, The Ani Yun Wiya have used the sacred pipe and never again has any man seen the sacred lake of Uktena.


The pipe is not a symbol of things that are sacred. The pipe itself is sacred. Not everyone is called upon to be a pipe bearer. The person who carries the pipe and practices the pipe ceremonies and traditions has a great responsibility to his brothers and sisters, his land and country and even to the Earth Mother.

The pipe bearer does not 'own' the pipe he carries. He simply carries the pipe until the time comes for him to pass it to the next bearer. The pipe bearer is given certain powers of sight from the pipe as well as an ability to heal and purify. Should the bearer fall from grace and become a liar, thief, neglect his duties when asked, or become deceitful, the pipe would repossess these gifts and then the possibility of misfortune for the former bearer may exist.

One should be ready to accept the responsibility of the pipe for it may make demands upon you. It will become your teacher and guide. It can also be your worst enemy if used wrongly.
I leave it to you to decide if these words are truly said.
This is the way that I have learned.

as told by a Cherokee Elder

ok this posted twice sorry...i dont know why but this site is so difficult for me.
blessings to u all

The Midnight Thunderbird symbolized by the Midnight Lightning over a beautiful Lake Michigan Bay.

He is a great sacred legend in his own rite
He is many but they are only one.
He is the Great One Eyed Bird Who Rides on the Clouds of the Storm
Whose Voice is Thunder and a Glance of his Eye is Lightning.
He is the Great Winged Power From the Place Where the Sun Goes Down.

THE LEGEND GOES ON

The lightning of a midnight storm has sculptured a Great Bird in the night sky over a beautiful bay on Northern Lake Michigan.

It was claimed this mystical bird was the connecting link between the Indian People and the Great Spirit.

The Thunderbird for the Indian people was the great protector, and showed himself upon their landscape, their waters, and their great natural cathedral.

The Thunderbird was claimed as the great winged power, riding upon the clouds, whose voice is thunder, and a glance of his eye is lightning, making the axis joining heaven and earth.

Jim captured these Thunderbird images in July l995 during a devastating storm, and after much study he now believes it is documentation to Indian religious ideals of truth.

Jim's work perfectly represents the phrase "The honesty of Nature comes only from the Wild", they are paintings by Nature, Mother Earth and Father Sky, and cannot be improved upon.

Mythology of the Phoenix
The oasis has afforded you a night of respite from the heat of the Arabian desert. You awake in the predawn glow, feeling the cool stones of the well press against your back.

Before you can hear it, the breath of flapping wings ruffles by you in a dazzling rush of brilliant gold and scarlet feathers. A fabulous bird the size of an eagle lights on the well brim. It flutters into the water and bathes itself. Its song is so sweet you are mesmerized. Even the sun god, Re, pulling the new day behind him in his sky-borne chariot, stops to listen.


In all your journeys you never dared believe you would see such a wondrous sight, the Phoenix, bird of myth and legend. But here it is, the only one of its kind. Despite its size, the Phoenix crushes nothing it touches and is quite gentle. It feeds only on dewdrops and is wise with the accumulation of its 500 years.

But today you will see more than you imagined. The Phoenix knows its time is coming to an end. You watch as it fashions a nest made of fragrant myrrh and cinnamon at the top of a palm tree. Aghast, you see the Phoenix on its nest, burst into flames! But look, a miracle! From the ashes a new and radiant Phoenix rises! The young Phoenix now moulds a hollow egg made of myrrh and carefully deposits the ashes of the ancient Phoenix inside. Gently carrying its precious offering, the Phoenix flies to the temple of the Egyptian sun god and places the egg on the altar.

The young Phoenix, symbol of self-renewal and immortality, will also live to the ripe age of 500 before it repeats the scene you have just witnessed. Only one Phoenix lives at a time, sweetly greeting each new day in the same way as its predecessor and gathering wisdom to match its feathered brilliance.

Your travels however, do not end here. The Phoenix, while the only one of its kind, is not alone in the world of mythical birds. You’ve heard the legends of other lands and your wanderlust pulls you to a magical garden in the kingdom known as Russia.

It is midnight and velvety dark in the garden. You wait under the tree of golden apples favored by the Firebird for they are the source of its youth, beauty and immortality. Arriving like a comet out of the sky, the magnificent Firebird illuminates the night as brightly and warmly as a hundred torches. Its eyes glitter like crystals. When it sings, pearls fall from its beak. The song of the Firebird is said to heal the sick and give sight to the blind. A feather gently floats to the ground in front of you. You pick up the silvery gold plume. Shining like the sun, it lights your path from the garden onto the road east. Arriving in China, you find the mysterious bird born of the sun known as Feng-Huang. With radiant feathers of black, white, red, green and yellow, it too sings an enchanted song. In some areas of China it appears with a large bill, a snake’s neck, a tortoise back and a fish tail! In others, it shows itself with the head and comb of a pheasant and the tail feathers of a peacock. The Feng-Huang either carries two scrolls in its bill or a square box containing sacred books. Only the empress is allowed to wear its symbol of virtue, grace and power. You turn your attention in a southerly direction and continue your trek.

In India and Nepal, the Garuda drives the chariot of the sun god, Surya, on its daily path. You can’t believe your eyes! The bird’s shimmering emerald body is human with an eagle’s beak, golden wings and four arms. Two arms are folded in prayer, one holds an umbrella and the fourth carries the elixir of immortality. It is dawn and the Garuda motions to you to climb aboard the chariot and accompany him on his day’s journey. You fly across the ocean towards your next destination.

When the enchanted chariot delivers you to the American Prairie, the Native Americans share their reverence for the Thunderbird with you. The beating of its wings creates thunder and you are there the very moment this majestic and powerful bird shoots lightning from its beak! You will stay awhile to hear the magical stories of the Thunderbird.

This, then, is where our paths separate. If you choose to continue your travels in search of the magical birds of myth and legend, you are sure to make wondrous discoveries. There are so many lands yet to visit….

Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 19

"If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace."

--Fools Crow, LAKOTA

As within, as without, our present thought determines our future. If we want peace outside ourselves, we must first have peace inside ourselves. It's not what is going on but how we are looking at what is going on. We need to keep ourselves in balance. We must be careful to not get too hungry, angry, lonely. or tired. We must know the times - time to work, time to rest, time to play, time to sleep, time to pray, time to lighten up, time to laugh, time to eat, time to exercise. There is a saying "The honor of one is the honor of all." This means when we work with all, we need to also work on one. We need to take care of ourselves. You cannot give away what you don't have.

Great Spirit, let me walk in balance today. Remove from me resentment, self pity, and self seeking motives. Let me love myself so I can love my neighbors

u did it too sis :)

"The greater the faith, the greater the result."

--Fools Crow, LAKOTA

The Creator designed us to act on faith. We are able to do this by holding firm to our beliefs. If we believe something and if we don't want the belief to change, we need to add the power of the Great Spirit to this belief. We must always have the spiritual added to our beliefs. If we don't add the Spirit, then we may very well change our minds the first time we are tested. Each time we are tested and we don't change our minds, we get stronger. The wind may blow on the red willow trees bending them and causing the roots to grow deeper. The more the wind bends the tree, the bigger, stronger, and deeper the roots grow. We should be happy that we are tested. It's the Creator's way of making us have greater faith for greater results.

Great Mystery, Grandfather, I know if I am tested today that I can count on You to give me the courage to get to the other side. On the other side of every test is the reward of strength. Make me strong

Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 22

"When life is too good, we think too highly of ourselves and our blessings. Then we decide we are the wisest and the favored ones, and we don't think we need Wakan-Tanka and the Helpers anymore."

--Fools Crow, LAKOTA

It is sometimes easy to get off track when times are good. We start to take the credit and start to think we are in control. We start to think we are smart. Then we quit praying or pray only with lip service. We say the words but don't mean them. Sometimes our head is our greatest enemy. We start acting like a foolish child. We must develop the discipline to be humble during the good times. We need to remember how honorable it is each day to come into the presence of the Creator. How happy we should be to talk to the Grandfathers, to have the choice to start each day on the Sacred Spot - our place of communion with the Great Spirit.

Oh Great Spirit, first let me thank You for the honor of talking to You today. To have the insight of Your love, that only You can love me when I don't deserve to be loved. Let me be reminded to talk to You all day long.

peace light and love to all who pass this way...

luv ya sis !

"The mind's eye changes the way we judge things."
--Fools Crow, LAKOTA
"What you see is what you get." Our head has inside it a movie projector that projects out from our foreheads and shines on a screen a picture of our true thoughts. This is our reality. We can only see what we project (our beliefs). If we believe someone is a jerk, every time we see them we reflect our beliefs about what we think about that person and that is all we can see. Even if someone tells us this person is a kind, loving, caring, intelligent individual, we wouldn't be able to see it. If we change our belief about them, that person will change and so will our judgment about that person.
My Creator, let me realize the power of choice. Let me see the advantages of changing my beliefs. Today, if I am judging my brother, let me change my beliefs to acceptance. If my thoughts are of anger, let me change them to love. Let my eyes only see you in everything and every person.

Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 26

"Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity."

--Fools Crow, LAKOTA

To serve each other, to respect each other, to trust each other, to honor each other, to love each other, to cooperate with each other, to care for each other, to forgive one another, to focus on peoples' good, to laugh with one another, to learn from one another, to pray for each other; these are all acts of love. These values and actions will connect us to one another in the Unseen World. Nature is a good example of how we should get along with one another. Watch nature. She is our teacher. Nature lives to give to one another. The insects give to the birds, who give to the four legged, who give to the two legged. The Creator made all things perfect.

Oh Great Spirit, let me serve the people today. Let me see that it is better to give than it is to receive. Be with me today.

WALK IN BEAUTY AND WITH GRACE UPON OUR SACRED MOTHER EARTH

BE MINDFUL OF EACH STEP YOU TAKE WITH LOVE AND PEACE IN YOUR HEART

FEEL THE CONNECTION DEEP IN THE ROOT OF ALL THINGS GROWN WITHIN HER BODY

REACH FOR ALL THINGS THAT YOU CAN SEE WITHIN YOUR GRASP AS FAR AS THE STARS THAT SHINE

IN YOUR PLACE OF POWER STAND BENEATH THE FULL MOON OF GRANDMOTHER WITH HOPE AND FAITH FOR THE NEXT CYCLES RETURN

IN YOUR PLACE OF POWER STAND BENEATH GRANDFATHER SUN FOR THE RENEWAL OF EACH DAY AND WHAT IT WILL BRING TO YOU

BE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY YOU BREATH THE AIR THAT IS CLEAN

BE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY THAT THE WATER YOU DRINK IS PURE

BE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY THE SOIL BENEATH YOUR FEET IS NOURISHED WITH NUTRIENTS TO GROW WHAT SUSTAINS YOU

BE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY THAT THE WIND TOUCHES YOUR FACE TO FORETELL OF CHANGES COMING INTO YOUR LIFE

BE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY FOR THE FIRES THAT BURN WITH LIFE AND SPARK TO KEEP YOU WARM IN THE COLD

BE GRATEFUL FOR THE SMOKE OF THE SACRED FIRES TO LIFT YOUR PRAYERS FOR CREATION TO WITNESS AND HEAR WITHIN THE SOUND OF THAT SILENCE

LIFE IS A SACRED JOURNEY....TREAT THE EARTH AS SHE TREATS YOU

WHEN SHE RUMBLES AND SHIFTS - LISTEN TO HER HEART AND REMEMBER TO SEND HER THE LOVE AND GRATITUDE SHE DESERVES

WALK IN BEAUTY, RESPECT AND GRACE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE!

GOOD JOURNEY MY FRIENDS.....

WABUN WOLF-EAGLE <3

Spirit of Wolf grant this prayer that all can live as one and peace reign everywhere

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Thank you Carol and Sunspirit Smiles for bringing this wonderful video to my attention!

Sonja Myriel

Yes, I remember, we were playing there together as children :-)

It was not easy on us ... but we were glad that we were having each others company. One after the other of our elders had to go... But we were younger of age so we had to endure ... finally we became accustomed to the new way of living. But deep in our hearts we had burried the longing for a FREE way of living in unison with nature, with the animals, with Mother Earth ... now we have come back. Born into the civilization we once were loeathin - to free ourselves again and become what we have always been longing to be: FREE people united through SPIRIT!

BLESSED BE, dearest sister, and thank you for having brought back these memories through your comment and video!

Sonja Myriel

Thank YOU, dear Monica :-)

Fantastic pictures you have posted!

That's one of my favourites :-)

'PS.: The picture you posted below with the Violet background somehow reminds of the Pleiades ... STRONG connection to this star formation! me - you - and the Native Americans - LOL!

All life is a circle ...

 

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