I commit to walk a new way

by Priscilla Yellowhead Toby

Sometimes in our life, we come to a point where we need to take a stand and say, I commit to walk in a new way.

I took a break in my busy life and spent a few days pondering what I should do. I have always lived the teaching of my parents and grandparents, but I think I needed to live them more fully and to teach the culture that I knew so well.

On one of those days, I was lying in the grass and I fantasized that my Mother Earth's heart was beating with mine, but in reality it was my own heart pounding so hard at the decision I had made, and this is what I thought.

The Joining Of Heartbeats

I lay upon my Mother Earth
To feel the warm rays of my Father Sun
But what is this pounding that I feel
Like  a drum
In tune with my heart

I listen

Louder than mine
More in tune with the Red Way
And my very soul hungered
To hear the message

It beat

So clearly now
This message of Mother Earth
And it sunk
Deep within my whole being

Listen!
Live!

Remember the Creator who made you
Remember the ways
Remember the path

Go and teach my ways

GO

And walk in peace always