A Cherokee Feast of Day
by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
As time goes by we learn it isn't the speed with which we do our work, but the quality of time that makes life an accomplishment. How much do we enjoy working, or playing, or just resting? Schedules and deadlines take up most of what we do. We seldom have time to enjoy something for the sake of doing it. If we feel pressured, we have little incentive to enjoy doing anything, much less doing it well. Many who have to sit all day are bored and have nothing to think about except how unhappy they are or how they feel physically. More time is not the answer. We need a better quality of life, i ga osi, deeper rest, and it begins with quality attitudes. What we have or what we do not have should never dictate the quality of our lives or our capacity to simply enjoy.
~ Some pass without recognition, the grandest of all..... ~
SONG OF LOVE
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 12
"The first thing that we want you to understand is that spirit has no color or race to it. It doesn't matter whether your skin is white, black, red, Hispanic, whatever. No one out there is any better than you, and you are no better than anyone else out there."
--John Peters (Slow Turtle), WAMPANOAG
We are all created to be of equal worth. We may be different sizes, different heights, different ages, different colors, we may have different beliefs and be of different cultures. In the unseen world, we are all spirit formed into different shapes and colors but we are all worthy. For example, you can have water, you can have steam, or you can have ice. Which of these is not made up of H2O?
My Creator,
today, let me see equal worthiness in all people.
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Morning Prayer:
"Give thanks for unknown blessings
already on their way."
Aho , Amen , e-men .
Native American Blessing
January 12 - Daily Feast
Volume II
A wall stands between what our senses tell us and what our spirits know to be true. Our eyes, our hearing, our touch, tell us things are one way - but our circumstances tell us we need strong medicine beyond what we can see and feel. Why can't something overtake us and supply companionship and healing and money for both needs and wants? Probably because we are caught up in what we see and hear and sense, and we know too little about the spiritual. We have two kinds of awareness - sense awareness and spiritual knowing. Intellect says we know it all. Spirit grieves for the power and gold sifting through ragged holes in our undeveloped awareness of who we are and what is available to us.
~ I am the maker of my own fortune - as great as the conception of my own mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. ~
TECUMSEH - SHAWNEE CHIEF, 12th of August, 1810
"A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 12
"The first thing that we want you to understand is that spirit has no color or race to it. It doesn't matter whether your skin is white, black, red, Hispanic, whatever. No one out there is any better than you, and you are no better than anyone else out there."
--John Peters (Slow Turtle), WAMPANOAG
We are all created to be of equal worth. We may be different sizes, different heights, different ages, different colors, we may have different beliefs and be of different cultures. In the unseen world, we are all spirit formed into different shapes and colors but we are all worthy. For example, you can have water, you can have steam, or you can have ice. Which of these is not made up of H2O?
My Creator, today, let me see equal worthiness in all people.
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'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
We know without being told when we have acted unkindly or behaved unjustly toward another. Intolerance, whether it is personal superiority or religious bigotry, serves only to isolate us from the greatest joy in life - the sharing of ideals and happiness and friendship.
We must be patient and fair toward anyone whose opinions differ from our own. There is a much better chance of convincing those whom we hope to influence by being an example rather than a voice.
It is much easier to be led than to be pushed, and not so hard to be tolerant when we recognize within ourselves the reasons we are not always tolerant.
It sometimes becomes habitual to be dissatisfied with everything we see others do. We don't take time to understand and know the basis for their actions. We often fall short of listening to them long enough to understand, and their next words or actions may explain it.
We cannot afford to be intolerant, because no matter how good our ideas are, there is always a better..>>>*
God's Minute
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING.
AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, "WE ARE
HIS OFFSPRING."
( ACTS 17:28 *NIV )
Dear Member's,
There are times when we may think we are not important to
God, after all there are tens of millions of Christians alive right
now. So how can just one person make a difference to our
Heavenly Father?
Well Member's, God knows you intimately for it is written;
INDEED, THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL
NUMBERED. ( LUKE 12:7 ) After all God calls you His Child,
and even though you are just one in His Family of millions, He
knows you intimately!
Remember that He has said; "BEFORE I FORMED YOU
IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
I SET YOU APART," ( JEREMIAH 1:5 ) and He even made
you in His own image did He not.
So always remember that He is very proud of you, and;
THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU, HE WILL TAKE
GREAT DELIGHT IN YOU; HE WILL QUIET YOU WITH HIS
LOVE, HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH SINGING.
( ZEPHANIAH 3:17 ) Therefore, may you feel blessed in
knowing that joy fills God's heart every time He thinks
about you, Member's! Amen.
With My Love & Prayers,
your servant wado pastor cougarmoon
