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Today I’m grateful to have so may ancestors

those I know 

and those I’ve never had the privilege to see.…

Blessed to know they are somewhere

watching over me.

If you want to know why our ancestors are important…

here’s a little rule of thumb…

It’s difficult to know where we’re going…

If we don’t know who we came from.

We’re all born with a conscience and wherever we go in life

our conscience comes along.

It’s that voice inside our head that lets us know

If what we’re doing is right…or if it’s wrong.

As we grow…if we listen closely to the voice we hear

it’s not always the same voice that whispers in our ear.

Sometime it’s our parents, sometime our grandparents 

sometimes it’s one voice…sometimes more…

and sometimes it’s a voice or voices…we’ve never heard before.

The Native Nation people believe these are the voices of our ancestors 

who walked on but are not dead…

That they are somewhere watching over us

and it’s their voices we hear inside our head.

These voices contain our ancestors wisdom

which they’re hoping to impart…

and are meant to guide us toward an open mind, 

a gentle soul

and kindness in our heart.

Their mission is to nudge us in the right direction

knowing the final decision is ours to make….

And when we don’t take their advice

their voices are there to help us learn from our mistakes.

More often than not when we listen to their voices…

our ancestors are happy with what they see…

and we find balance in our life

as we walk the path of peace and harmony.

But as I look around the world 

and see so much hatred, prejudice and war…

I’m wondering if when it comes to our ancestors voices

we should be listening to them a little more.

May we be thankful for the gifts we inherited from our ancestors

that never ending chain of people who came before us

their gifts of love and joy and laughter….

they left us before passing on…

And may we be blessed that our love and joy and laugher 

can be found upon the chain…

long after we are gone.