February 10 – Daily Feast
Turn around right where you are and face the frightening situation, the lion, hlvdaji, on your path. Don’t waver and dodge. Look the problem in the eye and call it nothing. Speak to it in definitive words so that there is no doubt that it must go. Wisdom tells us to get out of harm’s way at times, but it never tells us to weep with fear. Once we turn to face it, a quiet determined strength pours in to end the terror. Fear is terrorism. It is not running from it that cripples us but refusing to call it what it is. When fear takes over it flows through all our thinking. If we have any faith at all, it is scared faith, but faith will grow when we charge it with determination and powerful words.
~ Make everything straight and strong. ~
DRAGGING-CANOE
‘A Cherokee Feast of Days’, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler