As I look toward the rising sun at the break of a new day, I hear the sounds of my people stirring in their lodges, of the running river and the call of the early morning birds.
Each day as the sun rises, a new life begins, but because it happens every day, it is taken for granted. The exception to this is when the new day holds the promise of something special, such as a marriage. That day is looked forward to eagerly and its arrival is met with a sense of excitement.
For my people, just like you, a marriage was regarded as sacred and the union blessed by the great spirit. My braves fought hard to win the heart of their squaw and those competing for the squaw had to express the depth of their love for her.
No man deserves the hand of a woman in marriage unless they are eloquently able to express their love.
When my people got married I told them that the greatest risk to their marriage was that it became like another new day to them, and they took it for granted.
For my friends, I wanted my people to know that if they fought hard for their squaw, they should fight just as hard to keep her.
At the rising of the sun each day, be excited, for it is a new day in which you can find something new about your squaw to love and that night you can express it with all of your feeling and eloquence and your squaw can do the same.
A marriage is not a thing of convenience, it is the coming together of two people to help both themselves and each other find and achieve their purpose on earth through creating a bond between themselves and their great spirit.
In a great marriage any sacrifice made for the other one is done with pure joy.
My people were taught to be as one with nature so that their time on earth only added to nature. This is my message. ‘Be as one with each other and let your time together only add to the other one.’
Your greatest feelings of love for each other are yet to come as you both grow on your journey and as that love grows, so too does your inner peace.
I ask you to try with all of your hearts to arrive at the destination of full love at the same time.
