Honor the past Accept the present Trust the future
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The Power of Three Practices
"Everything Love does, it does in a Circle"
Honor the past
To honor the past means to turn over the reins of life to and
cultivate deeper awareness of the ancient human experience of God. This
experience goes by different names: the "Ancient", "Great Mystery",
Grandfather, Wakan Tanka, Creator, God, Great Spirit, Holy Spirit, Tao,
and so on.
Honoring the past prompts us to acknowledge the struggles of all our
ancestors whose collective sacrifices delivered us to our life as it is
now. Honoring the past brings us to a deep understanding that each
generation shares a desire to create a better world for their children.
Honoring the past means to remain true to the wisdom of those who have
gone before, accepting the burden and gift of carrying the 'torch"
passed to us. Honoring the past breathes life into our souls, roots us
to the ground and prepares us to treat people with respect. Honoring
the past keep us humble.
We honor the past by expressions of gratitude, by remaining faithful
to a spirit of solidarity with all that has gone before. Honoring the
past grounds us through the darkest of times with strength, courage,
hope, and endurance because we understand that we are not alone in
walking this ground.
Accept the present
One definition of Hell is to want things to be other than those things
that are in our lives. When we spend too much time whining or
complaining about the unfairness and nastiness in life we loose the
present, the gift of now.
Living in the “Now” is hard work. In the now, we practice accepting
who we are, where we find ourselves at any given time. In the now, we
are challenged to let go of the broken ways of our childhoods so we can
operate as responsible men and women. In the now, we function as
co-creators of our lives--collaborating with the Great Mystery--as our
life unfolds. In the now, we learn to accept everything that comes our
way as opportunity to practice skills and learn information that will
be used many times over the rest of our lives. In the now, we make
peace with life's unfairness, brutality, and pain. the better we will
be.
In the now, we work to change the things we can with the wisdom that
comes form honoring the past. "Thy will be done" is the hint that
accepting the present will bring it's own rewards if let go of doubt,
fear, and the demon of control that haunts our life.
Trust the future
The future is present from the beginning. The future takes its form
in how we honor the past and accept the present. Silence about what is
to come, stillness about how it will look and acknowledging the mystery
that grows from the humility of honoring the past and acceptance and
accepting the present allows the future to be what will be. In the end
the future is the present and becomes the past in the great cycle of
creation.
The power of the Circle
Buckminster Fuller wrote that love is metaphysical gravity, the
farther we drift from love the deeper into the depths of Hell we find
ourselves. Love is a force of nature and is made of the elements of
humility and acceptance. Love is power, more powerful than light. Light
requires time to come to us, love is instantaneous. Love is beyond
time. Without the power of love we wander through life, lost souls in
the cosmos. When we live in honor and acceptance we find our way back
Home. Home is Love. Home is where we belong. Love is hub of the wheel
of time. Honor and Acceptance are the spokes of that wheel. Our actions
in the present are the rim. Generations teach us that what is of value
in our lives, “love,” survives.
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Reflections
"It is an Honor to be Alive"
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We don't know how it got started and we don't know how it will end, if
there is such a thing as the "end". Love tells us to never give up
hope. Everything we think, do or say sends ripples out across the
universe. "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave".
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