Trust

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t
have to see the whole staircase.
Just take the first step.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. That is what sunflowers do”     Helen Keller

Both sayings have a very deep meaning to me. My knowing in God has to be so [...]

Connection to the Moon

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - June 8
“So we are connected to the moon. That gives us power, a connection to the Earth and the moon, men don’t know about.”
–Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK
The Elders tell us that the Woman has access to special powers. The Earth Mother gives her love in a special way to the [...]

Accountability

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - April 26
“If those bad words come, I let them come in one ear and go out the other. I never let them come out of my mouth. If a bad word comes in your ear and then comes out of your mouth, it will go someplace and hurt somebody. [...]

The female song of life

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - April 5
“As we plunge ahead to build empires and race for supremacy we should stop and listen to [the female] song of life. For without the female there is no life.”
–Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman, Traditional Circle of Elders
Women are created with the ability to produce life. Women have a [...]

Grandfather says this

A young Lakota asked his grandfather why life had to be so difficult sometimes.
This was the old man’s reply.
Grandfather says this: “In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as well as standing, hunger as well as plenty, bad as well as good. Grandfather does not say this [...]