The Ark of the Covenant - a sign that the Creator found us...

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56. Inspiring

Thanks for these sources:
General Parker is one of those bridge builders...
I am inspired by the quote:
"The battle of the 21st century will be to save this planet."
--Bill Yellowtail, Crow.
Al Gore said we have the technology, what we need is the motivation to restore the earth...
Motivation, inspiration, vision, dreams, spirituality, freedom

These are all words hard to understand for a scientific world who have made an artificial world for all to adhere to...
My posts are about dreams... Indigenous world-view speaks of dreams as an tool we can use to face current reality as full of crisis as it may be - the dream become the new reality we begin to act upon.
My actions to publish a newspaper article to support knowledge of a First Nations struggle in my community was a beginning.
Later I taught in a junior high school with First Nations students comprising of 25% of the population. I realized the aboriginal director needed support so we became personal friends and I initiated the Youth for Peace Aboriginal Art Contest. For three years we ran the contest which honored students from grades 4-12 for their ability to portray peace from a First Nations perspective. We discovered how 100s of young people from over a dozen ethnic backgrounds could portray peace through the world-view of another. It taught us adults as much if not more than the youth. The project reached a pinnacle when a young grade 8 girl presented the 'Blue Wolf' and requested that she just wanted aboriginal art to have a voice. The personal resilience of this girl would inspire anyone. In spite of circumstances presented by extreme forms of poverty, here parents were granted special permission to attend her awards ceremony. Hugging in a circle they wept tears of joy. Others shed tears as well. Her uncle whom she was living with told me, "She is going to make it." People came up and said, "Can I buy her work?"
My teaching profession afforded me the opportunity to design and add First Nations units to my course work. Later I enjoyed three years teaching at an adult upgrading program of the Blackfoot Nation. The elders taught me how to perfect the skill of making lesson plans designed with a sensitivity to personal history and culture. It was through this opportunity I completed my First Nations, Metis and Inuit Masters program. I've had dreams and one vision of the work I have been instructed to do, and I have a freedom given to me by no one but the Creator to fulfill it.
I've found people of the west struggle to view world-views holistically, we instead compartmentalize our beliefs and values to the exclusion of everyone else. Not once have I questioned the beliefs, views or posts of another on this sight. And I will certainly not follow anyone from forum to forum in order to discredit their opinions. Perhaps you have not - but I appreciate those who have who enable my to self-critic my work....