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December 12 - Daily Feast
We are different – you and I. We have differences in background, education – creeds perhaps. But more basic than that, the shape of a hand or an eye, the working of the mind. Knowing how we differ, why do we question the variances of opinion, attitude, faiths and how we look at life in general. What could be more tiring than seeing ourselves in whatever direction we turned? If we had nothing to challenge our views, would we ever think more deeply, rise higher? It is not our differences that make the difficulty in the world but our prejudices against difference. Yet none of us controlled his or her beginning. It is ignorance that makes us rebel against other races, other
creeds. And ignorance is trouble itself.
~ The Great Spirit made the white man and the Indian. He did not make them alike. ~
DAYKAURAY 1829
"A Cherokee Feast of Days," Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - December 12
"In order for our children to survive in the world, they need a firm understanding and belief in the basic principles of sharing freedom and respect for individuality."
--Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders
There is a saying: Tell me, I'll forget; Show me, I'll remember; Engage me; I'll understand. The adults need to determine what the younger generation is learning. The principle of sharing keeps the youth from being greedy and selfish. The principle of freedom teaches the youth about choices, decisions and consequences. The principle of respect keeps us from playing God and becoming a controller of all things. We need to learn these lessons so we may demonstrate them for our children.
Great Teacher, help me to understand Your principles.
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'THINK on THESE THINGS'
by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
At night sometimes the world seems so topsy-turvy and you're so weary of doing things the same old way. Then nothing seems to please....You try desperately for something new and different, something that doesn't seem so much like you. Why? Tonight you are different.
One cannot expect the world to be top side up all the time. Such perfection does not come so easily to human nature. And always there is a search for something new and different. A change of pace....that thought that I don't want to be me today, to think my thoughts and do my daily chores. I want to make a complete change now, to know a whole new way of life. And it is good to leave behind the many daily situations that sometimes stand too closely to be seen clearly, but to be wise enough to know which things should be left behind.
There have been clean sweeps that have left behind the dearest things....and have taken along the same dreary, dark unhappy things of the mind that should have been left behind.
A line from the prayer of serenity is "The wisdom to know the difference....." And wisdom, says Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is common sense to an uncommon degree. If one has the wisdom to wait a bit, wait until morning - or several mornings - that uncommon degree of common sense will give us the wisdom to know the difference.
We are different – you and I. We have differences in background, education – creeds perhaps. But more basic than that, the shape of a hand or an eye, the working of the mind. Knowing how we differ, why do we question the variances of opinion, attitude, faiths and how we look at life in general. What could be more tiring than seeing ourselves in whatever direction we turned? If we had nothing to challenge our views, would we ever think more deeply, rise higher? It is not our differences that make the difficulty in the world but our prejudices against difference. Yet none of us controlled his or her beginning. It is ignorance that makes us rebel against other races, other
creeds. And ignorance is trouble itself.
~ The Great Spirit made the white man and the Indian. He did not make them alike. ~
DAYKAURAY 1829
"A Cherokee Feast of Days," Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - December 12
"In order for our children to survive in the world, they need a firm understanding and belief in the basic principles of sharing freedom and respect for individuality."
--Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders
There is a saying: Tell me, I'll forget; Show me, I'll remember; Engage me; I'll understand. The adults need to determine what the younger generation is learning. The principle of sharing keeps the youth from being greedy and selfish. The principle of freedom teaches the youth about choices, decisions and consequences. The principle of respect keeps us from playing God and becoming a controller of all things. We need to learn these lessons so we may demonstrate them for our children.
Great Teacher, help me to understand Your principles.
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'THINK on THESE THINGS'
by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
At night sometimes the world seems so topsy-turvy and you're so weary of doing things the same old way. Then nothing seems to please....You try desperately for something new and different, something that doesn't seem so much like you. Why? Tonight you are different.
One cannot expect the world to be top side up all the time. Such perfection does not come so easily to human nature. And always there is a search for something new and different. A change of pace....that thought that I don't want to be me today, to think my thoughts and do my daily chores. I want to make a complete change now, to know a whole new way of life. And it is good to leave behind the many daily situations that sometimes stand too closely to be seen clearly, but to be wise enough to know which things should be left behind.
There have been clean sweeps that have left behind the dearest things....and have taken along the same dreary, dark unhappy things of the mind that should have been left behind.
A line from the prayer of serenity is "The wisdom to know the difference....." And wisdom, says Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is common sense to an uncommon degree. If one has the wisdom to wait a bit, wait until morning - or several mornings - that uncommon degree of common sense will give us the wisdom to know the difference.
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Available online! 'Cherokee Feast of Days'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler.
Visit her web site to purchase the wonderful books by Joyce as gifts for yourself or for loved ones......and also for those who don't have access to the Internet: http://www.hifler.com
Click Here to Buy her books at Amazon.com
Elder's Meditation of the Day
By White Bison, Inc., an American Indian-owned nonprofit organization. Order their many products from their web site: http://www.whitebison.org
Available online! 'Cherokee Feast of Days'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler.
Visit her web site to purchase the wonderful books by Joyce as gifts for yourself or for loved ones......and also for those who don't have access to the Internet: http://www.hifler.com
Click Here to Buy her books at Amazon.com
Elder's Meditation of the Day
By White Bison, Inc., an American Indian-owned nonprofit organization. Order their many products from their web site: http://www.whitebison.org
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