Warriors, are you staring into darkness so deep that you fear to take a step forward? “Be strong!” your Great Chief and Captain calls, “Be of good courage.” This is a time to grit your teeth and steady your heart, to slow it to the beat of a sleeping man. You can only do this by calling on Creator Yahweh to give you peace and to give you strength. As you stare into a wall of darkness where you must soon tread, there is no light to illuminate the path, nothing to mark the treacherous boundaries you know exist. One wrong step and all is lost. Discouragement slashes its sharp edge into your heart.

“Have I not commanded you?” Creator Yahweh’s voice calls out. “Be strong!”

It does not matter how weak you feel, or how foolish, your Captain and Chief has gone before; he knows the way. Listen for the echo of His voice as he leads you, not around this valley of darkness, but directly through it, like an arrow flying straight and true.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Joshua 1:1-6.. Pleya gi. “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart of Cobby Shadley at Arrows of Faith Gathering, Chiloquin, Oregon, 2014)