Elder's Meditation of the Day - June 5
"It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things."
--Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
If only the human being could understand the power of proper relationships, the need for power and control could be abandoned. It's not what is going on that matters, but how we look at what is going on. It's our relationship to it that counts. Nothing in the world has any meaning except the meaning we give to it. To be more effective at this, we need to consider our relationship with the Creator. Our relationship to the Great Spirit determines how we will perceive the meanings we put to places, people, institutions and things. We need to let the Creator tell us and guide our thoughts about these relationships. Any relationship that we have that is causing problems means we need to pray for a new point of view.

Creator, let me see the world and the people through your eyes.

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Native leaders are more determined than ever to press for their demands of the Canadian government. This comes after a final report was released on the shooting death of a Native protester.

Native youth in Oklahoma receive advice from former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. On Saturday, O'Connor participated in a leadership forum in Tahlequah.

...Understanding our Present by Honoring Our Past

During this week 1984, the U.S. Senate voted to make the Committee on Indian Affairs permanent. The committee has jurisdiction over legislation pertaining to American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.

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Believers, he added, must show their belief in their daily lives, so that the world might see the light shining in their faces. A bright and happy face cheers people on their way.

If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why. If the day be dark, how much a gleam of sunshine is prized; so let believers wear smiling happy faces, gleaming like sunshine in the darkness.

Let the Light of Truth and Honesty shine from them, so that all who behold them may know that their word in business or pleasure will be a word to trust and depend upon.

Abdu'l-Baha Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 124