Warriors, are you having trouble letting go of the past? Yes. There are many things for which our spirits yearn. We desire the return of the ancient ways when our lives revolved around creation and one another, where we worked in community and shared all good things. Yet often in our remembering we forget that the evil trickster also walked those paths and that the human condition touched our people with pride and brokenness just as it does the rest of the human race. So, if we remember the past, we must remember both the good and the bad.

Let us consider a better way. A way of holding onto the good of the ancient ways and moving forward to a more desirable and beautiful village…the village for which our hearts yearn and groan in expectation. This is the village that Jesus Yeshua is preparing for us and it lies before not behind.

If we are homesick for the old way of life, then we will have opportunity to return to it, but there is a much better place toward which we journey and we must move toward it with all diligence! This means we move forward wholly, speedily and with all eagerness. Let us do this together as we serve our Great Chief and Captain with our whole hearts. This is the beauty of walking the Jesus Way.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Hebrews 11:13-16. Pleya gi. “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart of Grand Chief Lynda Prince at Native American Conference at The Mission, Vacaville, CA 2015)

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