August 18, 2016 Daily Feast Of Wisdom (Tsugitsvnvda Danalisdayvhvsgv Agadohvsdi ) (ᏧᎩᏨᏅᏓ ᏓᎾᎵᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎬ ᎠᎦᏙᎲᏍᏗ)

2016

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August 18 - Daily Feast

Flowers keep us close to the earth and show us what repetition can do. When we are good planters and caretakers we see results - not just once but many times in many ways. We see the garden in our minds before we plant, and we see its needs and what we can do to make it better. But the garden in the mind stretches farther than just flowers and vegetables. It needs the same careful cultivation - never letting the weed of illness or strife or discord take root. This garden blooms year round and we should refuse to let it become a weed patch.

~ It is a day of beauty and bright sunshine. I rejoice that we can all meet here as friends, eat our bread and meat in communion, smoke the council pipe and the pipe of peace. ~

PLENTY COUPS - CROW NATION CHIEF

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

Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 18

"You have to have confidence in your own ability to be able to go it alone, to go against what the rest of the culture is doing."

Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D., PENOBSCOT

God, this is hard. Today, allow me to be a Warrior. Let me be strong. Let Your voice be clear to me. Let me hear Your guidance. My goal today is to serve You, to develop myself to be the kind of Indian person that You would have me be. To Walk the Red Road must sometimes be walked alone.

Great Spirit, let me walk the Red Road today with the confidence that You are with me. If I fall, I will quickly ask You to help me know what I should do next.

"THINK on THESE THINGS"
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

No hope? How foolish, for as long as there is a breath of life there is hope. How many people have sprung to their spiritual feet at the challenge of "no hope" and proved there is always hope. Perhaps there's nothing you can do for me, or I for you, but then again, perhaps there is.

As long as I do not impose the thought of hopelessness on you, and you do not convince me that your strength is all I can depend upon, then there is hope.

The things we sometimes call miracles are merely hopes activated by faith. And a wise teacher has said, "Give thanks for that which you need and soon you will have that for which you have given thanks."

If hope seems to elude you, let us give thanks that it is ours again. Let us speak words that are positive and reassuring and throw ourselves unreservedly into faith and trust, disregarding every emotion that seeks to convince us otherwise.

To lie down and be discouraged is our temptation, but to hope and have faith is our wisdom.