SECTION SIXTEEN) SPIRITUAL JOURNEY - Healing
Healing & Spiritual Community
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A) Discovery Of HIS Love For Me
My GREAT FATHER blesses me with Healing, like unto the Cedar Tree of Lebanon.
Given to me through HIS Restoration -
…an expression of HIS Mercy and Charity
…beyond the binding of an injury, a resurrection of life as well as spirit
…seeking Wisdom from past experiences, rather than harboring bitterness and resentment
…expressing Trust, Faith and Confidence in HIM and those whom HE sends to assist me
The Cedar Tree symbolizes cleansing.
Meaning of Trees (warpaths2peacepipes.com)
Royalty Free Illustration by Ken Barton (https://unsplash.com)
My GREAT FATHER Loves Me, HE Is My Tree Of Life
HE loves me through HIS Covenant, a Promise to ever remain with me.
HE loves me through HIS Promise, a Covenant to bless me through the richness of HIS Love.
HE loves me with a Covenant that my name is forever written within HIS Heart.
I love HIM with a Promise that HIS name will be forever written in my soul.
HE loves me to guide me in finding Union Through HIS Everlasting Covenant, Purpose.
HE loves me with The Desirable Fruit of Bonds That Intertwine,
That Are Strengthened Through Love for Self, Others, HIM.
To HIM, I am never a stranger. From HIM, I am never separated.
HE loves me with HIS loving blessing of a new heart.
HE loves me that I may ever be at home with HIM.
I rejoice that there is no need to fear love – it is HIS most Divine Gift that binds me together with those I love and with HIM – a binding that lasts throughout The Spiritual Journey, and beyond.
HE loves me to know that I will be found as I seek HIM.
HE loves me to share that which has been Created through HIS Perfection.
HE loves me to lessen the burden of my sorrow, that I may know of HIS Peace.
HE loves me to share that which has been Created through HIS Perfection.
B) In The Spirit Of My Elders
I learn that the lessons of Healing are given through those who have gone before me. It is from them that I understand that Healing is more than the mending of an injury. It is a Restoration of all that I thought had been lost when I had become wounded. I experience a soothing of my pain and a peace that settles within my spirit and soul, as if I have discovered that which I thought was lost – only to be given in greater abundance.
It is upon The Spiritual Journey To KIVA, that I find RECOVERY of the body, mind, spirit, heart and soul –
- hEaling Which Restores The Body, Heart, Mind And Soul
- hEaling Through Discovery Of Spiritual Community
- Reflection upon that which provides encouragement and cultivates fulfillment
C) My Destination (Spiritual Based Outcomes)
- Developing Positive Community Living Skills/Positive Support System
- Becoming free of imperfection through forgiveness of self and others, through forgiveness by others and My GREAT FATHER.
- Experiencing the cleansing of genuine confession and restitution while shedding the burden of blame, guilt, remorse and shame.
- The Spiritual Journey as an experience of becoming whole.
- Understanding the real value of self in the lives of others.
D) Pathways To Self-Discovery
- Pathway 21) Cleansing Through Compassion
- Pathway 22) The Comfort Of Forgiveness
- Pathway 23) Knowing The Blessing of Healing – Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual
- Pathway 24) Pursuing Meaningful Living Through Unity, Service, Recovery
E) Treasures Of My Spiritual Journey
- Restoration Of Hands, Body, Mind, Spirit, Heart and Soul
- Cleansing Through Compassion
- The Comfort Of Forgiveness
- Knowing The Blessing of Healing – Physical, Mental, Emotional And Spiritual
- Pursuing Meaningful Living Through Unity, Service And Recovery
F) 1st Nation – Hopi Prophecy
We are all flowers in the great spirit’s garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth.
- Unknown
http://www.worldhealingprayers.com/2.html
F) 1st Nation – Nez Perce
Talk to your children while they are eating; what you say will stay even after you are gone.
- Unknown
http://homeinsteaders.org/authors/native-american-proverbs/#sthash.jen090hn.dpbs
F) 1st Nation – Acoma Pueblo
Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat on the sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children, until they fall asleep. At last, they failed to wake up.
-James Paytiamo
https://eddietwohawks.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/sunny-doorsteps/
G) My Dance Of Healing And Spiritual Community by Chaplain Michael L. Benedict
My rhythm and song unite with the gentleness and mercy that mends each wound, forgives each wrong, makes right from past mistakes and prepares the traveler for a new journey. No more will there be wounds and scars of bitter words spoken or unresolved misunderstandings. Physical, emotional and spiritual scars will mend through a time of steady rehabilitation, tender intervention and sacred devotion. Tempests and storms will become subdued through rehabilitation and recovery. Recognition of error will be softened through a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. Relationships will be mended as will the illnesses of body, mind, heart, soul and spirit.
This is My Rhythm of Restoration.
This is My Song of Restitution.
This is My Harmony which unites with:
The Stability Of The Bison,
The Adaptability Of The Frog,
The Nobility Of The Elk,
The Steadfastness Of The Moose,
The Stamina Of The Horse,
The Elegance Of The Swan.
Dance I Now - My Dance Of Healing And Spiritual Community.