Elder’s Meditation of the Day

“Withouta sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.”

—- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

In the center of the circle is where the powers reside.These powers are called love, principle, justice, spiritual knowledge, life,forgiveness and truth. All these powers reside in the very center of the humanbeing. We access these powers by being still, quieting the mind. If we getconfused, emotionally upset, feel resentment, anger, or fear, the best thing wecan do is pray to the Great Spirit and ask Him to remove the anger andresentment. By asking Him to remove these obstacles, we are automaticallypositioned in the sacred center. Only in this way do we know right from wrong.

GreatSpirit, allow me this day to live in the sacred center.

DailyFeast

Sentences half spoken and beyond total hearing are thesource of difficulty. Only in the bright light of reason and understanding canthese cloudy mishaps be corrected. Some are simply tuned to hear the negative –even when it was never intended to be. They hear with an ear that is alreadybent toward trouble and only too willing to pass it on. We might consider whatwe want to hear – because everyone has moments when words tumble out withlittle meaning. Whether it is a slip of the tongue or simply filling in a quietspell, we are sometimes guilty of speaking when we should have been listening.The tongue is a little member and sometimes kindles quite a fire when it shouldspit on the matches.

~ We are becoming like them…..all talkers and no workers.~

BLACK HAWK

‘A Cherokee Feast of Days’, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler