April 20 – Daily Feast

April 20 – Daily Feast

A little brief authority can play such fantastic tricks before high heavens as to make the angels weep. The angels are not the only ones to weep. Authority, among other things, is very brief. Clearly so when we try to control our thoughts and keep our tongues in check. Misused authority makes people self-destruct. It is not so much the authority we wield over others that destroys us, but our failure to wield authority over ourselves. What terrific power we have, but still we whine, “I just can’t do it.”

~ From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things…… ~

CHIEF STANDING BEAR – TETON SIOUX

“A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II” by Joyce Sequichie Hifler