January 11 - Daily Feast
Volume II
People know important things about living, but too often know it with their heads and not their hearts. Heart knowledge changes a person at the core. It is important to know that it is not what goes into us that makes a difference but what comes out. Give the heart reason to rejoice - not because of outer circumstances but from that inner source of knowing that we do not have to lie down and die because some said it. Give the heart reason to say, "I will live and not die, I will rejoice and not cry."
~ My friends, I have been asked to show you my heart. I am glad to have a chance to do so. ~
CHIEF JOSEPH - NEZ PERCE
"A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 11
"Race and language makes no difference; the barriers are gone when persons can come together on high spiritual levels."
--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE
Not only are race and language barriers overcome by spirituality, but all things are overcome by spirituality. Inside every human being is the spirit. When we see people, we can choose to look at their outside or we can choose to look at their inside. Spirituality resides inside of others, we must be able to look at our own inside. If we see spirituality inside ourselves, we will see spirituality inside others. The saying is, "what you sees is what you gets."
My Creator, let me see all my brothers and sisters through the spiritual eye.
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THINK ON THESE THINGS
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
Keep hope alive and thriving because it is the stuff that faith shapes and forms to answer our prayers. Hope with all your heart and then be glad when it works.
Never think any worthy desire is hopeless. Don't give up on those needs and wishes that seem to never be fulfilled. Our faithfulness to them is the very thing that keeps them in the forefront so that we never forget.
Hope is the substance of the heart and spirit. The minute we think something is hopeless we drain away power and strength and the vision to see it all come true. There is nothing that will run us down and force the truth on us, because it is our quest, our chance to escape our hopelessness and to become individuals of ability.
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The Moccasins of an Old Man
I hung you there, moccasins of worn buckskin.
I hung you there and there you are still.
I took you from the hot flesh of a swift buck.
I took you to my woman.
She tanned you with buck brains.
She cut and sewed and beaded.
I wore you with pride.
I wore you with leaping steps over many grounds.
Now, I sit here and my bones
are stiff with many winters.
You hang there and I shall sit.
We shall watch the night approach.
Aho , Amen , e-men .
Native American Prayer for Peace
O Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind to each
other so that they may grow
with peace in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.
Aho , Amen , e-men .
God's Minute
AN ANXIOUS HEART WEIGHS A MAN DOWN, BUT A KIND
WORD CHEERS HIM UP.
( PROVERBS 12:25 *NIV )
Dear Member's,
It is important for a Child of God to be very careful
of the words we speak! For our Savior, Jesus Christ said;
"NOTHING OUTSIDE A MAN CAN MAKE HIM UNCLEAN BY
GOING INTO HIM, RATHER IT IS WHAT COMES OUT OF A
MAN THAT MAKES HIM UNCLEAN." ( MARK 7:15 )
It is also written; WITH THE TONGUE WE PRAISE OUR
LORD AND FATHER, AND WITH IT WE CURSE MEN, WHO
HAVE BEEN MADE IN GOD'S LIKENESS. OUT OF THE
SAME MOUTH COME PRAISE AND CURSING. MY
BROTHERS, THIS SHOULD NOT BE. ( JAMES 3:9-10 )
So Member's, choose your words carefully and remember
that positive words bring positive results, while negative words
always bring negative results! After all; PLEASANT WORDS
ARE LIKE A HONEYCOMB, SWEETNESS TO THE SOUL
AND HEALTH TO THE BONES. ( PROVERBS 16:24 )
These verses bring to mind a sign posted on the wall of a
Professor of mine, many years ago. I will never forget it, for it
so perfectly described him. It read as follows:
Be careful of the words you speak,
And keep them soft and sweet!
For you never know from day to day,
Which words you'll have to eat!
With My Love & Prayers,
your servant ,wado pastor cougarmoon
