"Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity." --Fools Crow, LAKOTA

 

To serve each other, to respect each other, to trust each other, to honor each other, to love each other, to cooperate with each other, to care for each other, to forgive one another, to focus on peoples' good, to laugh with one another, to learn from one another, to pray for each other; these are all acts of love. These values and actions will connect us to one another in the Unseen World. Nature is a good example of how we should get along with one another. Watch nature.

She is our teacher. Nature lives to give to one another. The insects give to the birds, who give to the four-legged, who give to the two-legged. The Creator made all things perfect.

Oh Great Spirit, let me serve the people today. Let me see that it is better to give than it is to receive. Be with me today.

Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons