The Fire Lodge 651. — July 19th, 2020
Prayer: O Great Spirit, we see and live Thy Ever-Presence in the quiet and beautiful
moments when we take the time to attune to Our All-Highest, Our Love, Our Light. Our Faith is that Thou are in every one of your Children, Our Brothers and Sisters. Our Vision is that You are leading us all to BE TOGETHER AS ONE to accomplish New Communities, New Worlds which are Angelic, Universal, and Wondrous! In the Heavens of The Sioux, upon the Plains of The Great White Buffalo, under the Skies of The Great White Eagle, we now kneel with our arms outstretched to praise and thank, to forgive and be forgiven, to
love
and
to
share,
All
that
Is!
Wakantanka, The All Voice! The Gathering of the Nations is here today.
Representatives from each tribe have been sent to enter THE FIRE LODGE.
Right
now we are kneeling in a circle round this simple, holy shrine, made of blended grasses, flowers, mud and crystalline quartz rocks. My mentor, Chief Yellow Feather, speaks: “Our POWOW today is a special meeting, dedicated to bring PEACE into the hearts of the people now on our lands from long ago. There is only compassion for those took our lands by force and cunning many seasons ago.
But we are here to pray for LIFE,
Sacred Life, that only The Great Spirit can make. We will pray that the lust for death and destruction, enslavement and conquest, end for good in the world.�
“Only by honoring all that live, can peace that is true begin to heal the lands and the peoples below us. We will pray then that are brothers and sisters will learn to respect and honor, love and bless all that is LIFE, each child of this star of many stars. We shall begin this now!” Into the lodge we walk while chanting: Wiichonii
….
Waka
Wiichonii
kiŋ!
…Wakantanka! … Wowaghwa … Waka …Wowaghwa Oiihahnkaywah-niil kiŋ! … Wakantanka! Mitakuye Oyasin! (Life … Sacred Life! …Great Spirit! … Peace … Eternal Peace! Great Spirit! All are related!) Magenta-crimson flames envelop us all.
There is some pain for some of us who have some degree of negativity to burn away but we just burn the brighter together moment by moment. The chanting and prayers continue as we gather inside the lodge, to stand and to then sit in sacred prayers, sacred purification, sacred attunement. Yes, we are all relations, for all are related, intertwined as the grass plains and forests are. We are all one for this is what Sacred Life, Sacred Peace means. Our prayers and blessings are meant for those upon the Sacred Lands of Our
Great
Grandfathers,
Our
Great
Grandmothers. I hear the elders chant in many languages:
“Let there be purification! Let there be peace and life! Let all our relations be ONE FAMILY!� And so now I return to earth. The Lodge of The Sacred Fire and all their prayers continue on and on. So there is great cause to feel hope for our world and our communities, the new communities for our new world.
For All is Peaceful Life.