July 16 Daily Feast, Elder's Meditation, 'THINK on THESE THINGS

2014

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July 16 - Daily Feast

In ages past predictions were made that a time would come like the days of Noah - a time of floods and volcanoes and earthquakes. Evidence of hot spots, upheavals and changes in the earth is everywhere - and it makes us ask if this is the time like Noah's. Earth goes on renewing and making every effort to stay whole and clean in spite of the tampering of mankind. Can it change itself? It must learn from earth that too much pressure can blow everything. We learn from the river that we can be so broadminded that we spread into the shallows and dry up in the midday sun. Our decision is to read the signs and know for ourselves. It comes down to a very fine point - a point that is us.

~ Behold, my brothers....the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! ~

SITTING BULL - SIOUX

"A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Elder's Meditation of the Day - July 16

"Grandfather says...you must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life."

Wovoka, PAIUTE

The question one should ask themselves is: Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? If you want to be right, this is a request from your ego. If you want to be happy then this is of the Great Spirit. The only meaning anything has is the meaning we give it. Maybe we should develop a philosophy of: Today is the last day of the rest of my life. If this were true, how easy it would be to let things go - how easy it would be to forgive.

Oh Great Spirit, let me live today as if it was my last. Let me express Your joy and be happy today. Let me see the joy and honor of living on the Red Road.

"THINK on THESE THINGS"
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

There are two words in every life that mean more toward perfecting that life than any other thing. Those two words are the basis for every action. They are "personal responsibility."

Daniel Webster once wrote that the most important thought he ever had was that of his individual responsibility to God. It was his personal responsibility.

No matter how understanding others may be, how kind, and tolerant, there comes a time when we cannot ask, not expect to receive, help in our struggle. There are simply times when other people cannot cover for our poor performance. It soon becomes time for us to stand on our own feet, express our own feelings, and search out our own beliefs.

Others can run interference for us, make excuses for us, and guess at our feelings. But we don't begin to live until we've accepted our personal responsibilities. We must learn to express truth in everything from showing our love to voting in an election.

Life is one personal responsibility after another. Shifting it to a nother's shoulders loses some of the most important steps. Failure to recognize it is folly; ignoring it is stupidity; and accepting it is to find more truth and more strength than was ever imagined or expected.