Muddy Waters

A Time For Everything
Posted by Nanci on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 8:54am
Another chapter is coming to a close and once again, a new year is dawning. It is time to send greetings and blessings to family, friends, loved, readers and wishing all a Happy New Year! As we ring in the New Year with celebrations and making New Year's resolutions that often fail without G-d's involvement. Let us remember that we need G-d's help to be victorious in over coming our bad habits or whatever we may have promised to over come by our own strength. The experiences listed below In Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 are proper at certain times just as over coming bad habits are over come at any time. We set ourselves up for failure when we make New Year's resolutions. The secret to peace with G-d is to accept and appreciate G-d's perfect timing. Resenting G-d's timing or doubting leads to despair, rebelliousness or running ahead without His guidance. That said, let us remember that there is a season and a time to every purpose. Read the whole post with comments ...
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Smudging in Churches
Posted by Nanci on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:14am
Smudging is a purification ceremony whereby elders use eagle feathers to move smoke around each individual to drive away evil spirits. We see this practise take place at Treaty Conferences, we see it entering Roman Catholic and Christian Churches more and more in this apostate hour. This syncretistic engagement is usually done at the onset of Catholic Masses or sermons. It is little wonder why strife, suffering and turmoil in native communities as these occult practises such as smudging, sweat-lodge ceremonies, or any part of native spirituality which follows worship of the god of this world; bringing with it curses manifesting in the physical realm in the form of substance abuses, oppression, bondages by which you cannot escape on your own accord nor own strength! One needs to visit skid-row areas to see the negative holocaustic affects it has on one's life while others wind up in prison for crimes they would not otherwise commit. There is a high disproportionate rate of aboriginals incarcerated in prisons even though stats show that they make up only 20% of population here in Canada. This does not look like any blessings from G-d for engaging in the occult. G-d does speak about blessings for obedience in Deuteronomy 28:1-14; and warns against curses for disobedience in Deuteronomy 28:15-67. Read the whole post with comments ...
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Catalyst For Change
Posted by Nanci on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 5:28pm
Many Native Spiritual practitioners today are encouraging their people to use tragedies as catalyst for change, i.e. return to Native Spirituality. This is one encouragement that has ghastly consequences whereby it leads to further descent into utter darkness. Do not get me wrong, I love my people, this explains why I continue to hammer home Biblical warnings concerning their worship and placing their trust in the wrong creator and ultimately the god of this world. I am so glad that Jesu... Read the whole post with comments ...
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Did God Create Cultures?
Posted by Nanci on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 8:50pm
“Listening Circle brings together two cultures” http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/files/news/intotemak/intotemakv35n2.pdf Read the whole post with comments ...
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To Mother's Memory
Posted by Nanci on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 11:06pm
Proverbs 23:25 May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful! There was never a woman quite like mother. She was gentle as a dove, a true friend to her children; she was the sunshine that burst through sadness, comforted us when we needed to be consoled, or helped us through whatever was ailing us. Mother was the glue that bonded us together as a family with so much love and joy. Read the whole post with comments ...
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