The Choice Before Us

The following is credited online as the words of a contemporary Hopi leader named White Eagle. The international press agency Pressenza, however, investigated the origins of this text and concluded that its author “remains unknown.” Furthermore, the agency stated that “we now assume that the text is neither based on authentic Hopi traditions nor represents the statements of a Hopi representative.” That all being said, I find it to be a very inspiring and hope-filled text. Perhaps you will too.

This moment that humanity is experiencing now can be considered a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or walk through the door belongs to you.

If you consume the news 24/7 – with negative energy, constantly nervous, and with pessimism – you will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, and to take care of yourself and others, then you will go through the portal.

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself in these ways, you take care of everyone at the same time. Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take perspective of an eagle who sees everything from above with a wider view.

There is a social demand in this crisis, but also a spiritual demand. Both go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.

You are ready to go through this crisis. Grab your toolbox and use all the tools available.

Learn the resistance of the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are still being exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and having joy.

Don’t feel guilty for feeling lucky during these difficult times. Being sad or angry does not help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy! You have every right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do this but to maintain a beautiful, joyful and bright posture.

This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). This is a resistance strategy.

When we walk through the door, we have a new world view because we faced our fears and hardships.

That’s all you can do now:

• Serenity in the storm

• Keep calm, pray daily

• Make the habit of meeting the sacred everyday.

• Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Active Hope
• Something We Dare Call Hope
• Active Waiting: A Radical Attitude Toward Life
• “I Came Alive With Hope”
• Resilience and Hope
• Why “Revolutionary Love” Gives Michelle Alexander Hope
• Clarity and Hope
• In the Eye of the Storm . . . A Tree of Living Flame
• The Act of Surrender
• Surrendering in Sacred Trust
• Trust and Surrender
• Trusting God’s Generous Invitation
• Giving Thanks: A Spiritual Act of Trust
• Jesus and the Art of Surrender
• Trusting the Flow
• Resting in the Presence of the Beloved

Image: Artist unknown.