The God

The God

Friday, July 20, 2007

A NEW THING

As you may have noticed, I have been using the "title space" on this blog to relay the 9 insights of the Celestine Prophecy. I'm being compelled to change this to something new....so beginning today and for the near future...the "title space" will be just that...a title space.

As you will note, I have now added a section which will be used to relay some prayers or proverbs from the great nations of the Native American people. Profound doesn't begin to describe what these words were, are, and ever shall be. It is my hope that I, in some small way, will help keep these prayers alive for future generations!

OH...and on a lighter note....periodically, I'll be changing the "Quotes" section of the blog. These quotes may be profound, they may be pure drivel, but the one thing that I can promise...they will be funny! Humor is a necessity for us all....and I love to laugh...so laugh along with me!

The Goddess

The Goddess

DECLARATION OF THE FOUR SACRED THINGS

The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.

All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirti flourish in its full diversity.

To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.

To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.

Taken from The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk