Grandfather's Prayer for Today

GRANDFATHER'S PRAYER FOR TODAY.
My Creator, help me to seek the truth within myself and help me remove any hypocrisy and arrogance within my heart.

In the very beginning,The Creator gave us teachings to live by. These teachings lived in our hearts as spiritual truths that brought us abundant joy as we walked hand in hand with Great Spirit. We knew how to love, honour, and respect our fellow brothers and sisters. In Native American culture, these teachings were passed on by stories, and other word of mouth teachings during times of family and community bonding. These were precious times, part of Indian culture. However, we taught our children most of all by the way we lived, especially how we treated others, how we treated all creation with respect, and how we lived in the will of Great Spirit. Many of us yearn to return to this mode of living, and believe we can. For most of us, the statement "Abstain from doing evil” is pretty clear. However, more understanding can be gained from the wisdom of ancient Hindu writings, and teachings of ancient Jewish sages, that will help us learn to walk the Red
Road in harmony with Great Spirit and thereby regain more peace with all things. How we treat others is who we become. The more hurtful things we do or say to others, or about others, the more tendencies we create within ourselves to do these things. We grow more and more into mean-spirited hurtful people who turn their backs on the Creator. We move into gloom and a darker state of being. Evil behaviour is an addiction that feeds on itself. However there is a cure. The reverse is also true. The more we perform kind actions, with an attitude of unconditional love, and treat others with love, tolerance, and respect, the more these tendencies will begin to grow within our own hearts. We will move closer and closer to walking in harmony with Great Spirit. Our joy will grow in direct proportion to our attitudes of unconditional love accompanied by actions performed with loving-kindness. We can regain true culture as that practiced by our ancestors. When we break old habits of evil tendencies, and develop new loving habits, we will become true Two-legged who walk harmoniously with Creator.
May Great Spirit guide you in your Earth walk.
GRANDFATHER PETER(Tread softly on the Earth Mother)