Since I don’t really want to say “Happy Thanksgiving” to my indigenous friends and family, I’ll say instead,
My wish for you this day is happiness. I hope you are able to enjoy time with, and a meal with, those you love.
Today, my father is coming for a meal. We have a lot to discuss about our future. I am excited as our relationship is blossoming more than I had ever hoped it would.
I wish you love. I wish you abundance. I wish you joy. I wish you peace.
I love you.
He said so, and I believe Him. He has gifted me my life more times than I am aware of, as I am certain, He has for you, too.
You call me out upon the waters
The great unknown where feet may fail
And there I find You in the mystery
In oceans deep my faith will stand
And I will call upon Your Name
And keep my eyes above the waves
When oceans rise
My soul will rest in Your embrace
For I am Yours and You are mine
Your grace abounds in deepest waters
Your sovereign hand will be my guide
Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me
You’ve never failed and You won’t start now
So I will call upon Your Name
And keep my eyes above the waves
When oceans rise
My soul will rest in Your embrace
For I am Yours and You are mine, oh
And You are mine, oh
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Saviour
I will call upon Your Name
Keep my eyes above the waves
My soul will rest in Your embrace
I am Yours and You are mine
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Joel Houston / Matt Crocker / Salomon Lighthelm
Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) (Reloaded) (audio) lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
“…And after a long time the boy came back again.
“I am sorry, Boy,” said the tree, “but I have nothing left to give you-
My apples are gone.”
“My teeth are too weak for apples,” said the boy.
“My branches are gone,” said the tree.
“You cannot swing on them-“
“I am too old to swing on branches,” said the boy.
“My trunk is gone,” said the tree.
“You cannot climb-“
“I am too tired to climb,” said the boy.
“I am sorry,” sighed the tree.
“I wish that I could give you something… but I have nothing left. I am an old stump. I am sorry…”
“I don’t need very much now,” said the boy, “just a quiet pleace to sit and rest. I am very tired.”
“Well,” said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could,
“well, an old stump is a good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.”
And the boy did.
And the tree was happy.”
~ Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree, 1964.
On this day, November 12th, 1890, an indigenous movement giving hope to the peoples in their loss and grief, was met with fear and violent suppression by the US government and it’s armed forces.
The Ghost Dance is, and was, a spiritual movement that came about in the late 1880s when conditions were in grave despair on Indian reservations with sickness, starvation and death ever present, Native Americans needed something to give them hope.
The Ghost Dance was an answer to the subjugation of Native Americans by the U.S. government. It was an attempt to revitalize traditional culture and to find a way to face increasing poverty, hunger, and disease, all representing the reservation life of the Native Americans in the late nineteenth century.
The Ghost Dance originated among the Paiute Indians around 1870. However, the tide of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka (Jack Wilson). Wovoka had a vision during a sun eclipse in 1889.
While many European Americans were alarmed by the Ghost Dance and saw it as a militant and warlike movement, it was quite the opposite — an emergence of a peaceful resistance movement based on Indian beliefs. It was also a movement of desperation, as existing treaties had been violated and Indians in the West were forced onto reservations. For the Plains Indians, this was a period of starvation as the buffalo were slaughtered, destroying their way of life and main source of food. From an Indian point of view, Europeans were not only destroying the way of life of Indian peoples, but destroying the natural resources of the plains to an extent that would make it impossible for anyone to live there. European Americans often saw the Ghost Dance as irrational. From an Indian point of view, what was being done to them and their way of life was irrational.
James Mooney wrote a book about the Ghost Dance, hoping it would help to counter newspaper articles about it that were inaccurate and promoted prejudice toward the Indians. His research was first published as part of a report in 1890, then enlarged as a book in 1896. The press encouraged popular belief that the dance was dangerous and possibly a prelude to an Indian uprising. Mooney emphatically explained that it was peaceful. In his introduction he describes several fieldwork trips between 1890-1894 that “occupied twenty-two months, involving nearly 32,000 miles of travel, and more or less time spent with about twenty tribes.” As a participant/observer he sang and danced with the Arapaho and Cheyenne, consulted with participants in the new religion, and also took photographs. One reason for the excitement about the Ghost Dance among ethnographers at that time was that the researchers of American Indians were seeing the emergence of a new religion developing in a surprisingly short time and crossing culture and language barriers. This was an extremely rare event. The new movement spread throughout the Native camps in the West, giving Native people much needed hope.
White settlers reacted differently to the “new religion”. Some traveled to the reservations to observe the dancing, others feared the possibility of an Indian uprising. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) eventually banned the Ghost Dance, because the government believed it was a precursor to renewed Native American militancy and violent rebellion. One of the goals of the agency was to convert the Natives to Christianity. The agency did not recognize the Ghost Dance, misunderstanding and ignorance were part of the BIA decision.
Wovoka’s message clearly promoted pacifism. However, spreading rumors of Indian treachery ignited fear and panic with non natives. On November 12th, 1890, president Benjamin Harrison ordered the military to take control over Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota.
On December 29, 1890, 300 Lakota men, women and children were killed in an event that came to be known as the Massacre of Wounded Knee. What started as a peaceful movement in 1889, was brutally ended a year later by the U.S. military.
Grateful for this shift.
Thank you Creator, my King, my Divine Brothers and Sisters …. many races and species, seen and unseen, here and there, everywhere.
Grateful for You.
My Love to You.
Rumi Oracle, Alana Fairchild
Written by Susan Marie
I see a generation rising in selfless faith, a new stirring of remembrance as we realize the Truth in who we are.
Once dead to the old nature in us, we rise.
We experience our true nature and we are reborn into a heavenly body while in this flesh.
We shall experience the infinite realm fully in every breath, in every thought, in every dream, in every step we take.
Being as One in IAM, we receive all that we could ever want or desire, in perfect love, no longer receiving in our limited expression of love and desire in our human nature.
I stand in ALL of who IAM, for I am worthy, as an heir to the unlimited realm of the Creator.
I align my thoughts to this knowing now, fully. For the former thoughts of who I have known myself to be are no more.
I am created as new.
I am adorned in a new body, a heavenly body.
I am aware of the flesh that was once who I am, and in that, my flesh is lifted, restored and purified and recreated, to bear the frequency of the most high to reflect the “image of God”.
I am that reflection.
A prism of Light.
A diamond made strong in the transcendence of human suffering by trusting in this All powerful Creator within me, as me, and I choose to let go attachments of need, want, suffering that was once known in the form of what was once “me”.
I am Christed. I am already free, simply forgot.
A bride adorned for her bridegroom. Sanctified by the Holy Spirit fires. Wedded within to Truth.
All my thoughts are to the Glory bursting within every cell of my body and the overwhelming awareness as unconditional love, becomes me.
I bless and exalt the Creator, my Lord.
As I stand in the heavenly realm now, I experience increase in all that is for me.
The banquet table was set, awaiting the body of Christ as you, to take their seat, and upon choosing that, the feast is soon ready to be tasted.
The earthly body is glorified in God, and is renewed in every moment as I recognize the gift of Presence, flooding my life.
Your glorified body is glorious!!
It possesses awesome attributes:
You’re in heaven, after all where no toxic emotions like envy exist.
God IS up to good things, in the midst of the storm.
We have been witnessing a “war season” in the lower world.
Many are about to cross over the threshold of a world in suffering into the eternal world on earth.
Those in Christ Consciousness.
The mysteries are ready to be revealed to these ones.
The “first born” in Christ.
A GREAT WAVE of God’s Holy Presence will flood the earth as a commanding force of love asking all to choose.
This great wave will lift you to the heavenly realm, that has always been here, as you say YES, to God’s most Holy Presence.
And then, we shall walk the earth together, on earth, but not of it.
The family of God. Living in God upon a new earth now.
For we shall walk beside ALL in the heavenly realm while upon this earth, and move in the gifts of God’s Holy Spirit.
In Christ, we are given the keys to greater works, oh what a joy this is!!
They shall observe angels opening doors of opportunity for them.
They shall see and know the reign (rain) of heaven poured through them.
They shall see signs and wonders, as never seen before.
They shall experience an anointing upon them, that as they give from God’s heart they shall receive the abundance of all blessings.
Their homes, and businesses and family shall be kept in the heavenly realm and shall prosper in Christ.
They shall witness a world without fear in their own life, while observing those navigating great turbulence in their rejection of Truth.
They shall respond as guided within to assist those choosing suffering over freedom, that they may see the great love that awaits them, in us.
I declare the blessings and promises of our God who loves us beyond measure.
For we thank God, for the fulfillment of all promises in your Word.
The way, is the truth and the light that is within you.
The light that never went out, only covered by your denial of it.
Choose this beyond the world you have known, and follow the guidance of the heavenly realm, within.
I choose to follow the highest power of the Most High God, as in that, I am more than a conqueror of the world.
IAM that, IAM.
I ask in Christ, that the most powerful and holy warrior angels assist you in moving whatever is in the way of you knowing Truth and experiencing this freedom, that was ALWAYS yours.
Simply waiting on you, to choose your true nature and identity in Christ, and leave behind all fears, all suffering.
That you may rise in power in God, as a citizen of heaven.
Say Yes, to the Spirit of the Living God within your heart.
Enter the heavens without death.
Eternal love ❤️ all ways.
“Equal portions of 2 versions”.
What if, to experience the greatest good, we must live thru the greater darkness. What if we are here right now, because as a collective, we are our strongest? For many yet to be remembered.
What if, we are about to slip into our wildest dreams?
This is the “quietest” it’s been since 2002.
Thanks be to my Creator, for the blessing of my Divine Family … so caring, kind, compassionate and powerful, bringing healing to this place.
It is my hope that I’m helping in some way.
I AM because They Are. Life, for me, may have ceased to be without our beautiful collective.
Much Love to You all. 🙏🏼
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