Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 10

 Elder's Meditation of the Day - August 10            

"Nature is the storehouse of potential life of future generations
and is sacred."               
-- Audrey Shenandoah, ONONDAGA     

We need to honor and respect our Mother Earth. She is the source of all life. The sun
shines life to the earth, then the earth produces life in all forms and in a balanced way.
Everything is here to serve everything else. If we interrupt the flow in any way, we leave
nothing for the future generations.
Before every decision is made, we should ask, and answer, a final question; "If we do
this, what will be the effects on the seventh generation? What will we cause our children
to live with?" We need to have respect and love for all things and for all people. We need
to do this for ourselves and for all the children still unborn.    

My Creator, let me look at nature today and let me have the highest respect for all the
things I see. All the two legged, the four legged, the winged ones, the plants, the water,
the air, the Mother Earth. Let me have respect for myself.