Today’s Elder’s Meditation:
| “Our Spiritual belief is that we were created as part of the land – so our identity, our names, and our songs are all tied to the land.” |
| –Chief Roderick Robinson, NISGA’A |
| In the traditional way, the names of native people had great meaning. We even had naming ceremonies. The naming of someone was very important and had great significance because it was tied to the Earth. The identity of each member and the teachings of the songs were all tied to Mother Earth. We need to know these teachings from our culture. This knowledge will help us heal the people. |
My Maker, today help me find my identity.
…thoughts on this….
I have had this struggle for many years. Who am I and how can I stay to true to myself? Seems that there are so many different versions of ourself that we can never weed out the one that shows our true heart. It hurts to expose that part of ourselves because we are so self-conscious about how others will respond to us.
If you really knew about the things that I like and dislike, if you truly understood why shiny objects and old movies are like heroin, if you really got into the deepest darkest recesses of what I am, would you still want to be around me? I try to be as blatantly honest as possible, but there are still things that I will probably never talk about in the company of others. My life speaks for itself, it is an open testament of what I have gone through.
Sure I was molested, beaten, dumped, cheated on, taunted, and prostituted myself…but that doesn’t speak of WHO I am, only of my experiences as a person in this world. My experiences could be worse than other people’s or theirs could be worse than mine, but those events don’t fully define us. I am not a prostitute because I sold my body for money. That is the past. I am no longer under that label.
So what can I say I am now? That is the ultimate question. I have to learn to feed that person within that only God and I see and bring that person to full maturity in the light, without caring what others think of me.
Do you use findingpurity anymore? I will have to go see. IM AT SCHOOL! ^ ^