February 8 - Daily Feast
Spirit has no high blood pressure. Spirit has no pressure of any kind. Look up at the leaves moving at the top of the tallest tree. No man has ever touched those leaves - but Spirit has. Look at the puffy clouds scudding across the sky - and catch the scent of evergreen - so many things set in motion by Spirit. Answers to questions may be out of reach - but not the Spirit. Send out your invisible praisers and singers to set the pace, to enlighten your spirit. When the blessing comes - ask. The Spirit knows.
~ I know how hard it is for youth to listen to the voice of age. ~
WASHAKIE - SHOSHONE, 1870
"A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 8
"No individual or group can block another individual's path or change it against what fits his nature and his purpose. It might be done for a time, but in the end it won't work out."
--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE
Every person is born for a purpose. We may know our purpose very early in our lives, or it may take us some time. Very often we need to experience many things before our purpose is clear to us. Sometimes we pick our goals to please others. Sometimes others pick our goals to make themselves happy. Often this makes us unhappy. We need to pray to the Creator and ask Him what our purpose is. When we live outside our purpose, our path is full of obstacles. When we live inside our purpose, our path is smooth. When we are aligned to our purpose, we are happy and content.
Great Spirit, whisper to me, in terms I can understand, what You would have me do and I will do it.
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THINK on THESE THINGS
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
Good ideas are the flower of the mind, waiting to bloom for the benefit of the thinker.
We are constantly in the process of manufacturing ideas. Every waking moment we are thinking continually, making mental images of that which we desire or need. Everything we see was first an idea in someone's mind.
Ideas are fleeting messages that pass rapidly through the mind. Some of them are strong enough to impress the thinker. Many are not worth saving, but a few are very precious. They have to be sifter, sorted and analyzed for value. Then they must be acted on immediately, for they are very perishable. Once we lose an idea, it is seldom if ever recaptured.
Everyone has access to a better and happier life through ideas, if we can trust the Lord to give us the will and courage to follow through on them.
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O'siyo , Hello my Friends , here is a Poem of mind that was published:
My Heart's burning for the Love of my Heart, I offer my Love to the true soulmate of my Heart. Can one go without love in their life, truely I say no, for the burning inside burns like the brightest star in the Universe. I give of myself to the one I love and the one that loves me, for tears of my Heart flows like the water droplets of a flowing waterfall. Just as my Heart beats to the beat of my Drums as I play them and my love flows like the music of my weeping guitar. I fall to the ground ,on my knee's and offer my heart and love to the one true love of my existence here within our Universe. For when a Man loves a Woman , he should offer her everything that belongs to him ,to show his true love, and she should do the same for the love of the Man, that she cares and has love for in her Heart. When they unite as one peace, love, joy, harmony, and serenity shall ring through-out the land and all mankind shall shall in their unity as one. She shall open his eyes to the future of the world ,just as he will do in the same way. A Heart yerning for the one true Love beats to the music of all Mankind, and shall never be forsaken or lost in the Heart of two equal in love and shall share one heart and be as one. For I offer this to you truely through-out everlasting eternity within the vast Universe we (mankind) ,lives in.
Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
Aho , Amen , e-men .
An Indian Prayer
My grandfather is the fire
My grandmother is the wind
The Earth is my mother
The Great Spirit is my father
The World stopped at my birth
and laid itself at my feet
And I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die
and the Earth and I will be one
Hail The Great Spirit, my father
without him no one could exist
because there would be no will to live
Hail The Earth, my mother
without which no food could be grown
and so cause the will to live to starve
Hail the wind, my grandmother
for she brings loving, lifegiving rain
nourishing us as she nourishes our crops
Hail the fire, my grandfather
for the light, the warmth, the comfort he brings
without which we be animals, not men
Hail my parent and grandparents
without which
not I
nor you
nor anyone else
could have existed
Life gives life
which gives unto itself
a promise of new life
Hail the Great Spirit, The Earth, the wind, the fire
praise my parents loudly
for they are your parents, too
Oh, Great Spirit, giver of my life
please accept this humble offering of prayer
this offering of praise
this honest reverence of my love for you.
Oh Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to the world,
Hear me!
I come to you as one of your many children.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in beauty.
Make my eyes behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things that you have made,
And my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things
That you have taught your children--
The lessons that you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
Make me strong, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be
able to fight my greatest enemy: myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes, so that
When life fades as the faded sunset
My spirit will come to you without shame.
Aho , Amen , e-men .
PRAYER FOR THE WHITE MAN
And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless
the White Man.
He needs your Wisdom, your guidance.
You see, for so long,
he has tried to destroy my people,
and only feels comfortable
when given power.
Bless them, show them the peace we understand,
teach them humility.
For I fear they will someday destroy themselves
and their children,
As they have done so Mother Earth.
I plead, I cry.
After all, They are my Brothers.......
Aho , Amen , e-men .
God's Minute
AND THE LORD, HE IS THE ONE WHO GOES BEFORE
YOU. HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU;
DO NOT FEAR NOR BE DISMAYED.
( DEUTERONOMY 31:8 *NKJV )
Dear Member's,
There are times when we are fearful of current events or
even the future, for fear is a tool that satan uses to attack
our faith in our Heavenly Father. After all fear causes worry,
and what is worry and fear anyway, but the opposite of faith!
Now it is important for a Child of God to remember that
GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF
POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND.
( 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 ) And God has made us this promise,
FOR I, THE LORD YOUR GOD, WILL HOLD YOUR RIGHT
HAND, SAYING TO YOU, "FEAR NOT, I WILL HELP YOU."
( ISAIAH 41:13 )
So Member's, the next time that fear strikes you remember to
hold fast to your faith! After all you can always CAST ALL
YOUR BURDEN ON THE LORD, AND HE SHALL SUSTAIN
YOU; HE SHALL NEVER PERMIT THE RIGHTEOUS TO BE
MOVED. ( PSALM 55:22 )
FINALLY, BRETHREN, FAREWELL. BECOME
COMPLETE. BE OF GOOD COMFORT, BE OF ONE MIND,
LIVE IN PEACE; AND THE GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE
WILL BE WITH YOU. ( 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11 )
Therefore Member's, have a great day today filled with
peace, and remember that "Worry is the darkroom in which
negatives are developed." Aho , Amen , e-men .
With My Love & Prayers,
your servant , Pastor cougarmoon
