Elder's Meditation........January 4

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"Meditations with Native American Elders"January 4

"Our circle is timeless, flowing; it is a new

Life emerging from death - life winning

Out over death."

-Lame Deer, LAKOTA

When we look at the world in the manner

Which the Great Spirit designed it, we can see

Why it makes sense to live in harmony with it:

The trees grow and bear fruit, the fruit has

Seeds, the seeds fall to the ground, the ground

Grows new trees, old trees die to make way for

The young. Any time we think we can interrupt

This cycle or change it we will experience

Turmoil and confusion. The Human Cycle exists

As the baby becomes the youth, the youth

Becomes the adult, the adult has children, the

Adult becomes the Elder, and the Elder teaches

The youth. Elders go on to the Spirit World.

Spirit comes into babies to produce new life.

Flow into the flow. Be the path of least

Resistance.

My Creator

And my

Maker, today,

Teach me to

Just flow with

The river of

Life.

By: Don Coyhis

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