Friday, October 26, 2007

Fire



Firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service run into spray water on wind-blown flames to protect homes and prevent flames from the Harris Fire from advancing in Jamul, California's San Diego county, early Oct. 24, 2007. Wildfires in southern California have forced nearly one million people to flee their homes.
Photograph by : ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images







Conference of the Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth


What is the place of fire on our planet, whether arson or not? How
out of balance are we and our earthly home? The following quote is from the
Conference of the Elders of Mother Earth that gathered aborigini people of the world. They came together to acknowledge that their ending time has come
and to ask for the best possible way to go back and restructure, reset and put things back on track?

Guidance from Our Elders
What are you going to give to the next
seven generations. Do you have a beautiful gift to pass on. I think so . . .
We are all asking ourselves what do we do next, and where are we.

Our ending time has come, and we are now asking for the best possible way to go
back and restructure, reset and put things back on track that give strength
to us. So we have a huge task the next five to ten years.

We are going to have to come together. This pathway has to be open, so that we can make
another 500-year calendar to bring in sacredness. Look at the elements. Look
at the environment. Look at the clouds,
the mountains, the plants, your
people, and the grandchildren that are unborn
yet.

We want to make an entrance, a pathway, a blessing way. We have experienced
negativity. There is social illness; there is great pain and suffering. Those
kinds of illnesses we do not need to take into this new pathway. If we do, we
only become sicker. We can put everything forward that is sacred. You and I have
to do it. Our children's generations that are coming are waiting for this
gift.


. . . So we are going to have to hold hands and go in one direction.
All of us
have to communicate, sing one song, say one prayer, and walk the
next decade
together with one voice, for our survival and the survival of
future
generations.

Leon Secatero, Canoncito Navajo Spiritual Elder.
http://www.spiritualelders.org/

How do we make a blessing way, that has deep reverence for the clouds, the mountains, the plants, all the people of the earth? How do we leave negativity and social ills behind? These are the questions I hold to my heart and seek guidance from the Sacred One.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Judy,

I've recently discovered your blog, and am glad I did.

The link here should be spiritualelders.org (with an s at the end). Thanks for pointing me to their site.

blessings,

Kenneth

Judy Brutz said...

Hi Kenneth,
it has been a while since I read your comment on Navajo Spiritual Elders. I recently came into eldering, to my surprise. What do you have to say about eldering?

Blessings, Judy