Men of Understanding

 I will come to this place every now and again...When the time comes, I will make a private door for you.

 I will have many wonderful things to tell you.

First please do this for me. Seek understanding in all things, study all religions, physics, math, nature, astronomy, and love the truth more than anything or anyone. Amen

I am building a ship. It is totally wooden. Only it doesn't need an ocean to sail, nor sky to fly.

I will be looking for the best horses, all of them, and men of understanding, all of them. It will be christened  Matthew 10:34-36  and will board soon.

 

Image of Turn Again Arm, off Cook Inlet, Chugach Nat. Forest, Alaska

बेऔतिफुल Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds,
and Whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom,
let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden under every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother
but to fight my greatest enemy - Myself.
Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame. Translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887

 I took this photo around the Yukon / Alaska border.

Above a Calving Glacier

Hovering above crevasses, 200 feet deep. Some of these sheets of ice are acres in size. The pilot said we couldn't hang around long, should one fall over, it would blow on us pretty hard.

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Ruth Glacier

There are those who care, those who don't, those who are lost, and those who are asleep. At some point we will all be each of these, but in the end we can only be one. We must care.