We are tribal people are we not? Yes. There is a time for solitude, a time for vision quest, a time for healing. But there is also a time to join with our people to encourage and strengthen. We are to encourage with the encouragement that we have been given; to comfort with the comfort we’ve been given. We do not need to wait until we are elders to share this blessing. Yahweh’s blessings come from the first moment that our hearts sing out to him.

Do you know someone who has just come to their senses as we talked about on February 16 in the story of the two sons? We once came to our senses, now it is time to help someone else as the Holy Spirit brings them to their senses, but be careful child, do not return to the way of temptation. Stay away from whatever road will take you there.

Perhaps a fishing trip, a horse ride, or a walk up the Sacred Mountain. Perhaps beading regalia, painting a drum, or singing over a drum. Take the Sacred Scripture with you. Hide it in your heart. Let it fall like rain from the heavens. You will discover that you are blessed and comforted and encouraged as much and more as the one you are lifting up to Yahweh.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is 2 Corinthians 1:3-7. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo of Eagle People: Jacob Trevizo, Aaron Gentry, ??, Ghostdancer (Buttons) Shadley, Cobby Shadley)