June 2 Daily Feast, Elder’s Meditation, THINK on THESE THING

Sunday
Dodaquasgvi

2013

June 2 - Daily Feast

Late June evenings offer a variety of concerts to the lingering spirit of, Tsalagi, the Cherokee. The songs of katydids and crickets rise to a crescendo and shrink back the way a tide swells and recedes. A sudden volley of hoots shoot through the woods and impatient shouts answer. The prairies lie quiet and serene beneath faintly showing stars until coyotes, most likely only two or three, howl like a dozen. The first high-pitched shout is like the head singer at a stomp dance, and then others join in before they stop as suddenly as they start. In the lull, the plaintive voice of he whippoorwill adds a sweet note. It has all been a, ga nah is daw, a messenger or ambassador of good will - of peace on earth - not only to the Tsalagi but from the Tsalagi to all the world.

~ June is Da tsalunee, the Green Corn Month. ~

THE CHEROKEE TSALAGI

'A Cherokee Feast of Days', by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Elder's Meditation of the Day June 2

"The Natural Law is the final and absolute authority governing, E Te No Ha, the earth we call our Mother."

Traditional Circle of Elders

There is no power greater than the Natural Laws. These powers were set up by the Great Spirit in such a way that the human being has no access to it, except by obeying. If we choose not to follow the Natural Laws, our live will be filled with confusion, tension, anxiety and stress. If we poison the Earth, we poison ourselves. If we poison the Water of the Earth, we poison ourselves. As we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves and our children, even the children unborn. May we think about this today and ask ourselves, "Are we holding and acting toward the Mother Earth in a good way?"

Great Spirit, teach me the Natural Laws that govern the Earth.

'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

There may be many reasons why man wants to conquer the world, but there is something youthful and soul-stirring, to be able to do it for somebody. Living within oneself is barren and shallow, lacking in warmth and without understanding. But when we can be outgoing and giving, the importance of others becomes doubly strong.

It is impossible to even be selfish without the help of others. Who would we take from, blame troubles on, resent, and criticize? But more important, who would care when we're ill, who would be happy when we're blessed, and who would love us when we least deserve it?

The world may be deluged with problems and solutions, laws to live by, formulas, fear, faith, and the everlasting struggle to survive in the face of others, but it is just as necessary to share laughter in happiness, to know God in a sunset, and to feel joy in a sunrise, all more beautiful because of others.

Victor Hugo wrote that he greatest happiness in life is in knowing that others love us, for ourselves, or rather, they love us in spite of ourselves.