January 4, 2016 Daily Feast Of Wisdom (Tsugitsvnvda Danalisdayvhvsgv Agadohvsdi ) (ᏧᎩᏨᏅᏓ ᏓᎾᎵᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎬ ᎠᎦᏙᎲᏍᏗ)

2016

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January 4 - Daily Feast

Tough-spirited, sensitive, poetic, Geronimo. Thousands could not subdue him, his freedom was too important and his life too entwined in the refuge of nature. But a time came when he wanted to surrender and live peaceably. He simply commented: "I have to die sometime, but even if the heavens were to fall on me I want to do what is right. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all children of God. God is listening to me. The sun, darkness, the winds are all listening to what we say." It is in our power to day, "I hear You, and I surrender."

~ I am going to try to live well and peaceably. ~

GERONIMO - APACHE

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

Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 4

"Our circle is timeless, flowing, it is a new life emerging from death-life winning out over death."

Lame Deer, LAKOTA

When we look at the world in the manner which the Great Spirit designed it, we can see why it makes sense to live in harmony with it: the trees grow and bear fruit, the fruit has seeds, the seeds fall to the ground, the ground grows new trees, old trees die to make way for the young. Any time we think we can interrupt this cycle or change it we will experience turmoil and confusion. The Human Cycle exists as the baby becomes the youth, the youth becomes the adult, the adult has children, the adult becomes the Elder, and the Elder teaches the youth. Elders go on to the Spirit World. Spirit comes into babies to produce new life. Flow into the flow. Be the path of least resistance.

My Creator and my Maker, today, teach me to just flow with the river of life.

THINK on THESE THINGS
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Our mother used to take all the neighborhood young people on a moonlight hike across the prairies. We always found a haystack that gave reason to shove and push and throw hay at each other. Then we would stretch out and our mother would tell us about the stars, pointing out different ones -- and the moon.

We were all quiet, listening to her words until she told us about the different phases of the moon. Some asked when the moon would be full and she said, "The moon is always full." We all contradicted her but she said, "We see the moon in all its phases but it is always the same." She told us there is a lunar moon and a solar moon according to time, and that the moon is the only satellite that orbits our world.

The ultimate lesson was things are happening even if we cannot see it. She said that we were disbelieving because wanted to see and touch everything -- but it takes faith to know what is going on whether we can see it or not.

David White Hawk ( Tawodi Unega )(ᏔᏬᏗ ᎤᏁᎦ )