"I'll miss summer '10/ Robert Gonzales

35. Living in the present

Key Scriptures: "Take therefore no thought for
the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for
the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" ( Matt, 6:34k).
Key Thought: Each new day is a gift of God.
Prayer:  Heavenly Father, thank you for
today , a day which you have made.  I will
rejoice and be glad in it.  Forgetting those
things that are behind, and reaching forth
unto those which are before, I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.  You are my
ever-present help, O Lord.
Because  you are always there, I will set
you continually before me.  Because you are
at my right hand,  I will not be moved.
Therefore, my heart is glad, and my glory
rejoices in you, Father, and I will rest in your
hope.  You are showing me the path of life
each step of way, O Lord.  In your presence
I find fullnesof joy every moment of this day,
and at your right hand I experience pleasures
forevermore.  Thank you, Father.
  Give me your grace to make most of
ever;y moment today, and help me t seize\
every opportunity that comes my way.  I will
redeem trhe time today and I will walk
purposefully and wisely as you reveal your
willl to me

  Today dear Father, I will trust in you
with all my heart, leaning not to my own
 understanding.  In all my ways, I will
acknowledge you, and I know you will direct my paths.



Brave95Gate: Tenskwatawa's Dream

Brave95Gate: Tenskwatawa's Dream: "As the wave of white settlements pressed westward,the Delawares' mantle passed to the Shawnee peoples, who pro- duced a significant prophet ..."

Tenskwatawa's Dream

As the wave of white settlements pressed westward,the
Delawares' mantle passed to the Shawnee peoples, who pro-
duced a significant prophet of their own in Tenskwatawa, or
'Open  Door' the brother of the great political leader
Tucumseh.  Ror the first 37 years of his life Tenskwatawa lived
very much on his brother's shadow as a rather dissolute med-
cine man with a weakness for alcohol.  the path branched,
and he followed the broader track .  It led to a house called
Eternity . This was a place of punishment, where he could hear
souls in torment 'roaring like the falls of a river'.
Even though Tenskwatawa was no Christian, the
imagery would have been familiar to any missionary. Priest
could also have supported the message that he drew from
his vision, for he preached a strict moral code , banning
alcohol- which he now abandoned- along witn polygamy,
violence against women and children, fornication and
dishonesty.  Most startlingly of all, he urged his followers to
throw away their  traditional medicine bags-the bundles of
talismans that wer their most sacred possessions-as a
symbol of their desire to start a new life.

   Tenskwatawa's vision of the future,  though was firmly
in the native  tradition.   A time was coming, he claimed , when
the Great Spirit would sweep across the land, darkening it
for two days.  Afterward, the whites would be gone, buried
alongside the Native  American people who had failed to
change their lives,  Then the Spirit would release the lost
game animals from the place where they  had  been hidden
and the virtuous would reposes the land.  The promised
time was just a few years away.
   For almost seven years , Tenskwatawa attracted
thousands of followers from across the Midwest to his
village, known t  the whites as Prophetstown . then he met
disaster .  In 1811 US troops approached Prophetstown while
his brother was away, and Tenskwatawa  encouraged the
warriors gathered There launch a preemptive attack,
ppromising them invulnerability . TRhe white soldiers'
gunpowder , he said, would be turned to sand.

  The attack, which became know as the Battle of the
Tippecano river, was not a success, and relatives of the
fighters who were killed turned on Tenskwatawa,blaming
him for the defeat.  Although they subsequently released him
unharmed, his reputation had been damaged  beyond repair
and he never exerted much influence again.
(Prophecies 4,000 years  of prophets,visionaries and predictions/Tony Alan)

Aspergers syndrome

Nonverbal Communication over the lifespan:
People involved with individuals who have AS have noticed that
as individuals with AS gain life experience,many begin to get an
understanding of theory of mind and nonverbal communicate-
tion.  Research with new technologiessuggests that when people
with AS do demonstrate a theory of mind, the ability seems to
reside in a different part of the brain than it does in NTs,or at
least is processed in a differentplace.  The capacity to understand
theory of mind and nonverbal communication in people with
AS also seems to be very vulnerable to failure when the person
with AS is stressed or in an emotionally charged situation .  It has
also been observed that for many with AS , even  though they may
understand the concept of theory of mind intellectually , they are
not able to use it in interactions withother people .  The same is
true for nonverbal communication.   They may gane an  under-
standing of the concept of nonverbal communication, but are
unable to decode it when they see it.
(solutions for adults with Asperger Syndrome/Juanita P. Lovett,PHD.
I am  one are you? R.G

meditation

For thirty years I went insearch of God, and when I opened my eyes at the end of this time,I discovered that it  was really He who sought for me.           __ Bayad al-Bistami, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose

I had heard about a superior type of manpossessing the keys to everything which is a mystery to us. this idea of a higher and unknown
atwithin the human race was not something
I could take simply as an allegory.  Experience
has proved, I told myself,that a man cannot reach truth directly , nor all by himself.  An
intermediary has to be present, a force still
human in certain respects, yet transcending humanity in others.  somewhere on our Earth
the superior form of humanity must exist, and
not utterly out of reach. In that case
shouldn't all my effortsbedirected toward
discovering? Even if ,inf spite of my certainty ,
I were the victim of monstrous illusion,I
should lose nothing in the attempt,For, apart
from this hope, all life lacked meaning for me.
                            --Rene' Daumal
                           Mount Analogue

Cabyll Ushtey Another water-horse known in th Isle of Man was th Cabyll Ushtey. 

This creature was a pale gray color.  It was dangerous and liked human flesh as much as the Highland Each Uisge.  There are few tales recorded aboutthe Cabyll Ushtey.  One tale tells of one such

creature who visited  Kerroo Clough on the Dark River for a period of time before disappearing.

Psychological attributes: A viciousness which delightsin destroying others.  Humans who have these traits most definitely need counseling. abusers and some murderers fall into this category.

Magical Attributes: Not recomended  ( Magical Mystical Creatures D.J Conway)