“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end… with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.” ~ Admiral James Stockdale
US Navy vice admiral and aviator awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a POW for over seven years.
I am recovery. I am your friend. I hold out my hand and bring you hope and faith. I award you serenity and self-esteem. I bestow upon you peace and acceptance. I wrap you in love and tender the shield of knowledge.
I volunteer humility and shower you with confidence. I bequeath spiritual growth, emotional advancement and physical revival. I am your friend. I will lead you out of the darkness and into the light. I will carry you when you are weak and escort you through honesty.
I will provide you the tools for your battles and binding for your wounds. I am your friend. I will teach you abstinence and release from your burdens.
I will initiate forgiveness and I will foster willingness. I will nurture ambition and claim back your life.
I am your friend. My name is Recovery.
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Hello, my friends. Today I will be discussing what basic things you can be doing to prepare you, and your family, for what lies ahead.
There is no easy way to approach this topic. I’ve spent a lot of sleepless nights trying to figure out what to tell you, and how to serve you best. Remember that fear only overwhelms your brain. Please just remember it is best simply to have open eyes, and no fear.
As Jesus discuses in his LETTERS OF CHRIST, there are horrors ahead of you. There is simply no other way to say it, and I don’t think it is on your best interest to avoid the topic. You have big challenges ahead of you as a soul group.
Many people feel that things are coming. This is no secret to any of you. And the best way to deal with that feeling is to prepare yourself and your family to care for yourselves in your time of need.
As you’ve seen with your viral challenges that are happening now, supply lines are quite easily interrupted. It is important for you to now, while you can, prepare your homes with basic provisions for your family, and if possible, another family.
While some of you have this time at home with not a lot to do, develop a plan for food and water, and even toilet paper, for a period as long as you can financially support. Please don’t hoard. You still have time to work on this.
There are going to be a lot of people without homes who will need to be taken in by those who have homes. I encourage you to find a way to provide for another family in your home if you are able to do so. What you give away always returns to you.
You may feel like you are doing your best just to provide for yourself and your family. I know I am asking a lot. But I promise you, and you can try this out now to prove it, what you give in service to another will return to you.
Take this time to convert your milk and juice containers to water storage. Find a method you like of preserving the water from the material available online. Equip your home with some sort of water purification system.
If you are in the Northern Hemisphere where Spring is approaching, or in a temperate area where you can garden all year, this is a good time to learn to grow a garden. Hydroponic systems are now easily developed from ordinary materials such as PVC pipe. You can convert a sunny windowsill or deck to a garden spot, or use a light to grow food in your basement or anywhere you have space. There are many helpful instructions online.
Buy canned food as you are able to do so. Your sun is going into a phase where it could very easily knock out your power transmission systems with flares. Your governments have not prepared for this reality. Your frozen food will rot if this happens.
Even small gardens, producing easily grown leafy lettuces and spinach, will supplement your diets so you can remain healthy during the situations that will arise.
Check on your available bedding. If you have space, acquire enough bedding that you could make comfortable another family who may have no where to go.
Develop a good first aid kit for your family. This should go beyond your everyday bandaids to providing for sutures for lacerations and a means to splint broken bones if the need arises. There are thousands of YouTube videos to teach you these skills you can watch now.
Take the time to learn how to purify contaminated water, and avoid water-borne illness carried in standing water. Again, you have a huge, free library of videos to teach you these skills on YouTube.
Stock up on a basic supply of vitamins and minerals. If you can talk a doctor into a prescription for some basic antibiotics to store for an emergency situation, take the opportunity to do so. If you are able to do so, try to stock your family’s meds.
All of these are just basic, common sense things to do to be prepared to endure the different challenges that are ahead. There is no need to hoard or dig shelters to escape. There is nowhere to go to escape. We will get through these challenges together.
Please remember that as we serve each other in times of crisis, we change the future reality for all of us. If we hold strong in love and compassion for all, not just those we agree with, we create a new, and better situation with our energetic output.
“Take the Americans Alive” … when the intercepted Taliban radio message was translated. Senior Airman Dustin Temple was sure as hell he’d never let that happen. For 48 hours, Temple and the rest of his Special Forces team fought off an overwhelming force.
When the enemy got close, he called in dangerous close airstrikes. When they ran low on ammunition, he sprinted from cover to a resupply chopper for more. When his friends were shot, he dragged them to safety.
For his heroism and critical role in turning the tide in battle, Senior Airman Temple was awarded the Air Force Cross. Serving with the 21st Expeditionary Special Tactics Squadron in Helmand Province, Afghanistan from 27 to 29 September, 2014.
As overwhelming hostile fire continually suppressed his team, Airman Dustin Temple broke the assault on many occasions with danger close air support from F-16’s, AH-1’s, AC-130’s and an MQ-1.
Following a teammate being gravely wounded by a sniper, he put himself directly in the line of fire, and dragged his wounded comrade from the rooftop. With the evacuation helicopter inbound, Airman Temple again risked his own life to save his teammate.
Senior Airman Temple carried him across one-hundred meters of open terrain. Despite overwhelming and accurate enemy machine-gun fire, he remained on the open landing zone, providing covering fire while his teammates pulled back.
After he returned to the compound, enemy fighters surged within 40 meters after intercepted communications stated,”Take the Americans alive.” Temple immediately directed F-16’s in danger close strafing runs, killing one insurgent and repelling the assault.
As supplies dwindled, he braved open terrain again to retrieve critical needed ammunition from a re-supply helicopter. With continuous machine-gun fire, he and a teammate sprinted into the open and dragged the supplies off the aircraft.
However, unable to carry the entire load, they withdrew back to cover. Airman Temple called in close fires from F-16’s to cover his team as they went out to retrieve the remaining ammunition.
Despite the continuous heavy enemy machine-gun fire, Sr.Airman Temple and two men again ran into the open terrain to retrieve the remainder of the supplies for a second time.
At the end of the 48-hour engagement, he controlled 28 attack helicopters and 20 fixed wing assets for a total of 26 engagements while safely employing munitions at danger close-range 75 times.
Airman Temple’s heroic and selfless actions directly resulted in confirmed 10 enemy fighters killed, and another 8 estimated killed, while saving the lives of 38 friendly forces.🇺🇸
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In These Moments Of Love And Chaos On The Planet,
I First Want To Say That You Are Worthy, So Loved And You Absolutely Have A Purpose!
Some Lose Their Way By Believing Their Purpose Is In The Personality.
This Purpose, Beloved Ones, Is Of The Ego Mind.
There Is Nothing Wrong With Finding This As Your Purpose,
Except The Absolute Fact This Belief Will Bring You Pain.
The True Purpose Comes From The Soul;
The True Self And The God Absolute That Breathes You And Brought You Forth Into This Density!
The Purpose You Find Here Is Very Different From The Ego-Personality.
All Humans Know They Are Temporary And Yet Most Get So Caught Up In The Story,
That They Forget They Are Divinity;
A Sacred Spirit That Has Come To Be Called A Soul By Thought Construct.
Each Soul Is Here For A Brief Moment And Did Not Just End Up On Earth By Chance!
The Soul Has Unlimited Abilities And Great Purpose In Just Being.
As You Live The Love, Loss And Challenges Of Being A Human With A Personality,
Remember That A Pure Soul Has No Personality!
There Are No Fights, Isolation, Virus Outbreaks, Lack Of Food, Or Fear!
That Makes YOU, Beloved One, A Fearless SOUL.
Be That Now As You Breathe Deeply!
It Is Possible For All To Forget Who They Really Are And Become Chaotic And Fearful!
But Each Being Arrived As A Complete Soul,
Knowing Many Of The Hardships, Handicaps, Loss Of Loved Ones, Employment And More!
And Yet Knew Their Worth Had Nothing To Do With The Story!
Each Moment You Remain On The Planet,
Take Many Moments To Stop Thinking.
Breathe Deeply And Become The Observer Of It All!
In The Silence Of Your Soul There Is Only Peace.
This Is The Path All Can Choose And Find!
When The Personality Lines Up With The True Self, The Soul, You Will Find The Answers You Seek!
You Will Find The Peace In Each Storm!
You Will Remember There Is A Gift Waiting For You On The Other Side!
You Are A Powerful Soul And You Are Complete!
Send Love To The Planet, All People And Animals, All Nature!
Heal The Planet Beginning With Your Own Heart!
You Live In My Heart!
I Love You So!
~AYA
Every Victorious Warrior –
draws their Strength
from the Highest Source;
their Love. ❤️
~ Tapan Ghosh
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The jingle dress came and was shared to indigenous communities through teachings and passing of one mans vision.
When a little girl fell terribly sick, he had this vision of a dress. A dress was to be made with jingles on it, so that everytime the woman who was wearing it moved in it or danced these jingles would make noise. Old tobacco lids from the snuff cans were used as the original jingles on jingle dresses when the dress first came to the people.
Once the dress was complete the woman learned of just how they were to use it, the steps that needed to be with this dress, and when and how to dance with the dress.
They placed the young girl in the middle of the arbor and they began to dance. When they danced, the prayers and the sound of the jingles healed her, by the end of the night she was well and it’s said she even joined them.
To this day that’s still practiced even at powwows, if someone is ill or suffering from an illness, they’ll place them in the arena and call in the jingle dress dancers to dance around them. It’s really a sight to see and an experience because when you dance jingle, you really are dancing for the people.
Across the nation jingle dancers are calling on each other to use that dress once again for healing, for healing of others who may be sick, or lost, or mentally struggling with everything that’s been going on. It’s a beautiful thing to see that all the teachings that have been there for us as native people are being resurfaced again and used for what they were given to us for, it’s not about stepping into arena and competing it’s ALL about the prayer.
Most powwow dances started off in a form of a traditional healing dance and down the road, yes it still has that meaning and prayers behind it but it also has became more contemporary. But today I joined in on that call of dancers thanks to Liz Salway.
Jingle dancers will be dancing at different times throughout the days to come and it’s so beautiful to know that, we will hold eachother up always. Ahéhee ❤️✨
Dance by: https://twitter.com/chelseymooner/status/1241064351991312385?s=21
“Everything’s so simple, and we make everything so complicated. That’s why we’re confused.”
–Vickie Downey, TEWA/Tesuque Pueblo
The Creator designed a very simple set of Laws for us to follow. If we follow these simple things, we’ll be happy. If we don’t follow these simple things, our lives become complicated.
For example:
Respect Mother Earth
Love one another
Be truthful
Give to your brother and sisters
Be gentle with each other
Be happy
Following these simple Laws will have great rewards.
Great Spirit, let me lead a simple life
Which is why complaining about current affairs and administrations is a severe waste of energies. Rather, we should focus on banding together and creating an example “they” can follow.
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