January 23 & 24, 2016 Daily Feast Of Wisdom (Tsugitsvnvda Danalisdayvhvsgv Agadohvsdi ) (ᏧᎩᏨᏅᏓ ᏓᎾᎵᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎬ ᎠᎦᏙᎲᏍᏗ)

2016

January
Dunolvatni
ᏚᏃᎸᎠtᏂ

Saturday
Dodaquidena
ᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ

January 23 - Daily Feast

We can walk through a thousand people's lives and feel only the loneliness of our own existence. Others move by on both sides and some of them stand in the brightest light while our own corner is so dark. But we have to know that the noisy successes of other people are often their ways of dealing with the still places in their lives. Others are working with their lacks and needs, their call for recognition. All of us would be warriors. All of us would stitch red into our costumes. Fear can penetrate the strongest fortress - and the password is compassion, pure and simple understanding.

~ The Great Spirit made us all - He made my skin red and yours white; He places us on this earth, and intended that we should live differently from each other. ~

PETALESHARO - PAWNEE PRINCIPAL CHIEF

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

Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 23

"Our true enemies, as well as our true sources of strength, lie within."

Willaru Huayta, QUECHUA NATION, PERU

A long time ago, the Creator put inside the human being the secrets to the laws of life. We usually know this is true even though we may not know what these laws are. If something goes wrong with our lives, we usually fix the blame on something outside of ourselves. We tend to give up accountability. One way or another we say, "It's not my fault." We need to realize that all permanent and lasting change starts on the inside and works its way out. If it's meant to be, it is up to me.

Oh Great Spirit, let me realize fully that my problems are of my own making. Therefore, so are the solutions.

'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Sometimes people are impressed more with status than they are content. The louder status is shouted the more glowing and receptive these people are. It is sad because so often status has no real substance, no teaching, but looks alone.

Put down the need to be impressed. Feel instead the kinship of standing with someone who knows our situation. If they feel our need for them they will stay close. This is the only inside circle that will not be broken.

One's own opinion is a privilege, but Lord, let us not sink out of sight in what we believe or profess to believe. If it is real and for the good, the true good, then we can relax and let life go on in its orderly way.

2018

January
Dunolvatni
ᏚᏃᎸᎠtᏂ

Sunday
Dodaquasgvi
ᏙᏓᏆᏍᎬᎢ

January 24 - Daily Feast
Volume II

Homecoming is not just a certain hour but a feeling, an attitude, an an na li - a friend. One phase of the day has been completed, so now back to the reasons for it - home. Home with its familiar fragrances, its lighted warmth and peace of mind. At least, home ought to be this way - though it isn't always. Too little time, too much weariness, too many complaints. Too little, too late, too bad. Real homecoming is a state of mind. Someone needs to be comforted, someone needs a gentle touch, someone needs to think of others. It may not be perfect, but working together makes homecoming a celebration.

~ Do not touch the money of the white man or his clothes. We do not fight for these things. The Seminole is fighting for his hunting grounds. ~

OSCEOLA - SEMINOLE CHIEF

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

Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 24

"Always listen to what the Elders say."

Dona Josefa Medrano, HUICHOL, SIERRA MADRE, MEXICO

In school we have been taught to go to the encyclopedia when we need information about certain subjects. From the time we are little, we have a natural tendency to seek out role models. When we need information about living we tend to seek out books about living. These maybe self help books. The world is full of information. For the Native people, we have our Elders. All races have Elders. Our lives will run much smoother when we listen to the Elders. They don't always tell us what we want to hear but they always tell us what we need to hear. The Elders have the ability to make the truth sweet.

Creator, thank You for the Elders. Help me this day to listen to them.

'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

We have to believe that the courage to do the impossible is possible. We have to have courage before we give up, thinking we are always going to be in the middle of difficult situations.

Lasting courage comes by refusing to judge everything by appearances and by hearsay. The world is rife with rumors about anything and everything. Those who never intend to do anything of consequence will tell us how bad things are and how much worse it is going to get.

Others will take heart and ride out the storm. There may not be any signs that promise better times, but there is that glimmer of inner-light, that knowledge that those who make it are the ones that kept going when everyone said it couldn't be done.

If we can bear defeat and not lose heart, we will know it was no defeating life, but only one small part that went awry.