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Life Should Be Like A Sun Dance....Mine Is

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Race and language makes no difference;
the barriers are gone when persons can come together
on high spiritual levels.
~Rolling Thunder

It was also Rolling Thunder who said that When we're through with this earth and all these problems, we don't have to come back. But as long as we're here we have a job to do and a purpose to fulfill... that means dealing with the circumstances around us.
We are in a world of constant change...I mean...look around you and you can see that it is evident. The wind will change during the course of the day...the weather. Even with the smallest change, it will cause our circumstances to change. Yet, we are given the tools to help us with those changes. My thought is that you should learn to recognize them and use them. One is prayer. Prayer to me, brings you back into balance. It helps you remember the 'law' of things and to live according to those laws.
Speaking of prayer...Sun Dance Ceremony will be starting up soon. A beautiful ceremony, that for years was kept underground because the Oyate(People) were not allowed to practice their own 'religion'. I place 'religion' in quotations simply because I don't feel it is really a religion, but moreso, a Way of living. A Christian made a comment that it was strange and somewhat masochistic. They couldn't understand this Way. I shared that it can be paralleled to their own religion through Jesus the Christ.
You see, he gave of his flesh so that others will live and these Sun Dancers do the same. They give 'freely', their flesh...there is no sacrifice. Just as Jesus gave, so do these Sun Dancers. They attach themselves to the 'Tree of Life' and after having danced and danced for all those hours in the sun, they pull back from that tree and their flesh remains and is given so that others may live. Others drag buffalo skulls just as Jesus had to carry that cross. That is the best way to describe this sacred Ceremony for non-natives.
Through my journey in life, I have come to find that people of all races and religions...if they only stopped looking at the physical, and recognized the 'spirit', to see that we are all the same...inside all of us is the spirit. We will then see the 'spirituality' within others, and not religion. Don't know if that makes sense to people, but it's my thought for today.
Carry on to your destiny in peace....

My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ This Song by Denean paints a good image of the Sun Dance, and so I share it with you...Sung in English by Denean and in Lakota by Howard Bad Hand

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Lakota translation in song: Wankatakiya etunwan was'agya waciyo!
(Looking upward, dance with strength!)
Tunkashila iyuskinyan cekiyayo!
(Joyfully, pray to Tunkashila!)
Mitakuwe ob yanin kte lo!
(So you and my relations will live!)