started thinking about the good red road this morning, about what i needed to do to change, and about the interconnectedness of all creation. found a prayer, of which mitakuye oyasin is a part:
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the website i got this image from didn't credit the artist. if you're the artist, let me know and i'll give you credit for this image - it's beautiful...
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin....All my relations. I honor you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer....
To the Creator, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you.
To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you.
To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and gives me healing herbs for sickness, I thank you.
To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offers your loyal companionship in this walk of life, I thank you.
To the human nation that shares my path as a soul upon the sacred wheel of Earthly life, I thank you.
To the Spirit nation that guides me invisibly through the ups and downs of life and for carrying the torch of light through the Ages, I thank you.
To the Four Winds of Change and Growth, I thank you.
You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.
Thank you for this Life.
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"there is no place in the transcendent consciousness for any of the
baggage you may still be carrying. all the shoulds and shouldn'ts that
may have dominated your consciousness are to be released and left at
this crossroads."
today seems to be all about paths. everywhere i turn, i see the word "path", or i run across concepts of path. as i mentioned last night, i do see my path forward, but i realize i didn't get it all right last night. my path has two parts: the first isn't actually writing. the first is getting rid of 90% of what i own. i think i won't be a writer and i won't know any peace until i accomplish that goal.
at this moment i have so much physical, spiritual and emotional clutter i can barely stand up straight in my own body. i think it's time for me to get off the computer and go work on getting rid of some of the physical stuff, which will in turn get rid of some of the emotional clutter, and THAT in turn will help me get rid of the spiritual clutter.
and THEN i can come back and write. ;}~
toodles for now...
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