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A thunder will crash in our hearts and minds, we together, must learn to ride the horses of change. It’s is what the futures asks of us. Our survival depends on it.

You just can’t be reluctant in helping each other….

Injustices can breed Hatred or Forgiveness…

Being a voice for the silenced, systematically frees generations of genocide. Be a voice for those who weren’t given a voice; forgive by NEVER allowing history to repeat itself, and trust that the transparency of healing, is often uncovering the buried voices.

In memory of the countless ancestors that have suffered, so I can speak through understanding and remembering. Your words, your memories, your voices….and it is my honor and privilege to carry your truths through my voice.

By opening our hearts and minds to the suffering and pain inflicted upon generations of indigenous people at the hands of assimilation policies that burdened countless families, with the yolk of pain, sorrow and the anguish of self acceptance.

Just imagine being forced…sometimes at gunpoint, ripping your child from your home, often as young as 4 years old, and that child being sent away to a boarding school to “kill the Indian, save the man” indoctrination. Being taught the blood that runs in your veins and all you know is wrong. This act, tearing apart countless families, brought egregious conditions in the native heart.

Families are the very core of our identities and our futures. Then, expecting those children and their families to assimilate and thrive in trusting in other human beings? My soul cries for all the ancestral voices that were silenced. My great great grandfathers brother was murdered in cold blood after being forced to relocate to Kansas 1885. He was murdered, “just for being an Indian.” His murderer admitted he shot him because, “he thought nothing of killing an Indian.” Valance Kennedy was only 25. The prosecuting attorney who brought our family justice was Charles Curtis, who later became VP of the United States. For Valance Kennedy’s memory, I will carry your and our family’s forgiveness and better learn our traditions and history, I will pull from your strength and resilience, and refuse to let the traumas you were made to suffer infiltrate future generations of HOPE and forgiveness. Thank you seven grandfathers:

Wisdom, Love, Respect, Truth, Honesty, Humility, and Bravery.

Photo source: Indian-Country Today
| ORIGINAL: APR 19, 2016
The mindset of the times…..20 years after this statement, Valance was murdered, the reason; because of his heritage.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Gospel of Matthew 5:3-10

Three parts of Man

Reference: https://hebrew4christians.com

The description that false teachers are “soulish” (ψυχικός -Greek translation ) but “without the Spirit” clearly identifies them as unregenerated people, and by implication, this description provides some insight into the nature of a regenerated person as well. The “natural man” is a fallen creature who is devoid of spirit (ruach Hebrew pronunciation ) as a result of the inherited sin condition of Adam and Eve. As such, he is alienated from the Spirit of God (Ruach Hakodesh -Hebrew pronunciation) and unable to apprehend the Divine Presence. Such a person is composed primarily of body (i.e., basar) and a soul (i.e., nefesh), and the will instinctively is directed toward the satisfaction of the ego and its needs. The “heart” (lev) of such a person is centered in the lower desires of the soul, which drives the emotions, instincts, and so on. When a person is reborn by the Holy Spirit, however, he is made into a new creation (Hebrew spelling –בְּרִיאָה חֲדָשָׁה) and a “rebirthed spirit” is divinely imparted by which he can communicate with God. The Holy Spirit then writes the Torah (commandments) upon a new heart (i.e., lev chadash Hebrew pronunciation ) that directs the will to seek the LORD and to live in His Presence:

This “tripartite” model of the regenerated person helps explain the struggle we have with sinful impulses in our lives. The “new nature” seeks to please God, yet the “old nature” selfishly desires to gratify the instincts of the flesh. These desires find their correspondence in the “law of the Spirit of life” and the “law of sin and death,” respectively. “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do” (Gal. 5:17). We are set free from this conflict by faith – by being led by the power of the Holy Spirit. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” Our relationship with the “Second Adam” imparts to us life-giving spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), and the resurrection of Yeshua Jesus gives us power to walk in newness of life. “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven” (1 Cor. 15:49). ‎”Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit (Hebraic spelling-(רוּחַ) and soul (נֶפֶשׁ) and body (גְּוִיָּה) (i.e., τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα Greek spelling) be kept blameless at the coming of Yeshua Jesus our Messiah and LORD” (1 Thess. 5:23). We are sanctified by the truth of the Word of God (John 17:17), which pierces “even to the point of dividing soul from spirit (Greek translation ψυχῆς καὶ πνεύματος), and joints from marrow” (Heb. 4:12).