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Post by morningstar on Jul 30, 2009 21:01:13 GMT -5
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Post by morningstar on Jan 15, 2011 19:07:48 GMT -5
Let's be PROUD of the land we live in. I love Canada for this very reason...let's revisit this song...it's our heritage...it makes us the great countries that we are!
Perhaps we should reentitle it, "This WORLD is your land..."
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Post by George the 3rd on Jan 18, 2011 9:51:15 GMT -5
The Wolf Ceremony
I wanted to give something of my past to my grandson. So I took him into the woods, to a quiet spot. Seated at my feet he listened as I told him of the powers that were given to each creature. He moved not a muscle as I explained how the woods had always provided us with food, homes, comfort, and religion. He was awed when I related to him how the wolf became our guardian, and when I told him that I would sing the sacred wolf song over him, he was overjoyed.
In my song, I appealed to the wolf to come and preside over us while I would perform the wolf ceremony so that the bondage between my grandson and the wolf would be lifelong.
I sang.
In my voice was the hope that clings to every heartbeat.
I sang.
In my words were the powers I inherited from my forefathers.
I sang.
In my cupped hands lay a spruce seed-- the link to creation.
I sang.
In my eyes sparkled love.
I sang.
And the song floated on the sun's rays from tree to tree.
When I had ended, it was if the whole world listened with us to hear the wolf's reply. We waited a long time but none came.
Again I sang, humbly but as invitingly as I could, until my throat ached and my voice gave out. All of a sudden I realized why no wolves had heard my sacred song. There were none left! My heart filled with tears. I could no longer give my grandson faith in the past, our past.
At last I could whisper to him: " It is finished!"
"Can I go home now?" He asked, checking his watch to see if he would still be in time to catch his favorite program on TV.
I watched him disappear and wept in silence. All is finished!
Chief Dan George
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Post by morningstar on Jan 29, 2011 17:14:58 GMT -5
George...that made me want to cry. It is so real.
There is much that we must feel shame in...much that has to be changed...there always was...perhaps there always will be in this World.
And yet...there is a need to remain/become positive...to shine the light of truth for all who would see. There is still hope...it burns like a flickering candle ... at times it seems dim and ready to fail...yet, in the darkest of times it's light seems greatest...
What is this light?
Perhaps it is a spark from the first light of Creation...perhaps it is what is inherent within each of us...that which connects us all Universally.
If one asked a quantum physicist..they would give us an in depth scientific speil about how it is .... I've tried to grasp this...
yet - a simple spiritual statement says much.... "Everything is God"... How profound is that statement? That depends on the one who listens...
Each of us must come to understand the "truth" that lies within us. The answers are not "somewhere else" to find...they are there all along. The answers are so simple that they often get overlooked. Those who have found them have the responsibility of being the lighthouses for all who are lost.
There is much to be changed...much that must manifest...
are we ready?
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Post by morningstar on Jan 29, 2011 17:37:52 GMT -5
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