Spirit Speaks!

Pondered this one quite a bit lately, not that I am even trying to rationalize having one foot on each path. I really don’t care about right or wrong when it comes to faith, more I wonder about absence or presence of faith. Emmenuel Teney might have expressed best how I feel right now “As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” Maybe faith is more like …
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I saw an interesting look at the meaning of the 12 days of Christmas at CriVoice and thought I might share it. The basic premise is that this often thought of nonsensical children’s rhyme actually has much deeper meaning. On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me… Day 1, Christmas Day, December 25 – A Partridge in a Pear Tree: The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, whose birthday we celebrate on December 25, the first day of Christmas. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge that …
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I noodled this up this afternoon. A larger version is available by request (email me!). Sun Bear was born in 1929 on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. He was founder and Medicine Chief of the Bear Tribe Medicine Society. As a young boy he began having visions which portended his development as a medicine man and teacher. He studied with his uncles – who were medicine men – and continued throughout his life to learn from his dreams and visions as well as from Native teachers. I was introduced to the teachings of Sun Bear by my teacher, Proud Woman, especially the …
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