| Elder's Meditation of the Day May 12 | |
| "All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song." |  |
| ---- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA | |
| To believe that every tree, plant, and insect can talk takes an open mind. Go by yourself into nature and sit quietly. Then pick up a rock and listen to your thoughts. After a while, put that rock down and pick up another rock. Your thoughts will change. These are the voices and wisdom of the Stone People. Each one has different wisdom and they are willing to share their wisdom with you. Many of the Stone People are very old and very wise. | |
| Elder's Meditation of the Day May 11 | |
| "[The Old People] would gather words as they walked a sacred path across the Earth, leaving nothinig behind but prayers and offerings." | |
| ---- Cleone Thunder, NORTHERN ARAPAHOE | |
| Whenever we walk on the Earth, we should pay attention to what is going on. Too often our minds are somewhere else, thinking about the past or thinking about the future. When we do this, we are missing important lessons. The Earth is a constant flow of lessons and learnings which also include a constant flow of positive feelings. If we are aware as we walk, we will gather words for our lives, the lessons to help our children; we will gather feelings of interconnectedness and calmness. When we experience this, we should say or think thoughts of gratitude. When we do this, the next person to walk on the sacred path will benefit even more. | |
| Elder's Meditation of the Day May 5 | |
| "There are many things to be shared with the four colors of man in our common destiny as one family upon our Mother the Earth." | |
| ---- Traditional Circle of Elders, NORTHERN CHEYENNE | |
| The Elders tell us the time will come when the four colors of Man will unite into one family. According to prophecies, we were told this would happen when the Sun was blocked in the Seventh Moon. There was an eclipse of the Sun in July, 1991. We are now in a new Springtime called the Coming Together Time. Each of the four colors of man has knowledge that the other colors need to heal their families. Let us all be willing to sit in a circle and respect our differences. | |
| Elder's Meditation of the Day May 4 | |
| The whole religion is like a preparation. It's a preparation for going to the Good Land or to the place of your ancestors. We all have to go through it. We all know this. | |
| ---- Horace Axtell, NEZ PERCE | |
| There are two Worlds that exist. The Seen World and the Unseen World. Sometimes these worlds are called the Physical World and the Spiritual World. The Elders say, when it is time to go to the other side, our relatives will appear a few days before to help us enter the Spirit World. This is a happy place; the hunting is good; the place of the Grandfathers, the Creator, the Great Spirit, God, is a joyful place. | |
