Ghostdancer Shadley

Warriors, if we accept the words of Creator Yahweh and hide his commands as treasure in the deepest part of our hearts, turning our ears to wisdom and making it our goal to gain understanding; if we raise our voices and call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if we search for wisdom as we would for silver and search for it as though it were a hidden treasure, then we will understand what it means to maintain reverence to our Great Chief and Captain, and we will discover knowledge of the ONE who created us.

This knowledge will protect us from our enemy, that evil trickster, and will guard our hearts when we are weak.

This is the wisdom that comes through Holy Spirit Power. When we called out on Creator Yahweh for deliverance this power was placed in our hearts. This power is in us, warriors, waiting to be released. Let us make it our goal to serve our Great Chief and Captain to the end of our days.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Proverbs 1:1-5. Pleya gi. “Go with Blessings.”

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Warriors, it is good for us to manage our lives in a way that will work, doing what is right and just and fair. We gain knowledge and instruction as we grow in the grace and knowledge of Creator Yahweh. This knowledge comes through diligent study of the Sacred Writings and listening to the wisdom of respected elders. Reverence and worship of our Great Chief and Captain is the beginning of wisdom.

Let us not be led astray by people who do wrong and who entice us with the promise of “belonging.” Many of us went down this path when we were young. Now we must warn our young people of what is right and what is wrong.

It is enough to belong to the brotherhood of our people who have been adopted into the family of Creator Yahweh. Let us listen to the instruction of wise fathers and not forsake the teaching of our mothers. These teachings will be like a fragrant garland around our necks and a fine headdress upon our heads. Walking in wisdom will keep our feet on the Beauty Way.

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

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart of Rev. Qaumaniq Suuqiina, Henry and Sandy Mena and Chelsea Clement at Native American Conference at The Mission, Vacaville, CA 2015)

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Warriors, shame is the nemesis that plagues recovering people, and many of us are in the recovering stage. When we were children we learned to hide certain parts of ourselves. When these parts became overly dependent or independent, full of rage, too playful, too full of will, or too free, too curious, too spiritually knowing, or too imaginative they were rejected by those upon whom we relied to feed, clothe and protect us.

So what could we do but push them down?

That is why it is important to know and learn the Sacred Writings. Because as we deal with this inner child, we can replace the lies we have long believed with the truth of the Word of our Great Chief and Captain! It is then we can also receive healing from Holy Spirit along with forgiveness for any wrongs we actually committed. This is the path toward restoration.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is 2 Corinthians 10:1-6. Pleya gi. “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart at Skywalk, Arizona, 2012)

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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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Warriors, we begin a new year, sometimes with enthusiasm and sometimes with dread. Often we have no idea of where we are to go or what we are to do. Yet we have a mission here on earth and it is also one that we share with the rest of the human race. But it is no less our individual mission, given to each of us by our Great Chief and Captain.

Our mission is this…while we are doing and while we are going…we are to do what we can moment by moment day by day, step by step to make the world a better place. We do this by following the leading and guidance of God’s Spirit within us and around us. For not only has our great Chief and Captain placed his Holy Spirit within us, but we also live and move and have our being in Him.

This is an amazing thing warriors, and we will not fully understand it until we are clothed in glory standing before Creator Yahweh. He has given us the strength we need to walk the Beauty Way. It is our choice to take the first step.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Acts 17:22-31. Pleya gi. “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart of Cobby Shadley, Aaron, Mary and Don Gentry, and Jerry Aaronson at Native American Conference at The Mission, Vacaville, CA 2015)

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