Lakota Stories - Humility

Here I am back in NC for a short visit.  It is truly amazing how relaxing it is to change one's location.  Does everyone feel that - the letting go of all responsibilities - when going away from home?   This morning I'm reading The Lakota Way: Stories and lessons for living by Joseph M. Marshall III.  Surely I must have been part of a Native American tribe in a past life. The stories truly appeal to me at a deep level.  He writes about values:  humility, perseverance, respect, honor, love……and many more.   The order of his essays is interesting to me.  For me at this moment in my life, humility is uppermost in my mind and his words struck home.  So many powerful blessings are being bestowed on me - particularly in my cry for help.  I now have two wonderful yoga teachers available to substitute for me so that I can have more time for my own spiritual seeking and other pursuits that have been neglected.  For them, Chris and Joanne, I am so very grateful.  I am also very grateful and humbled by the many new students who are attending classes and giving me the opportunity to "begin again" with the basics of yoga at almost every class!  Look around the next time you are in class and see the new faces that join us.  One last week came FIVE years ago and has returned.  That is the power of yoga.  Once you feel its power in your own body, you never forget it!  ………The story of "No Moccasins" Marshall tells is a beautiful tale of one woman's humble, courageous act to save her husband by leaving her moccasins beside a creek "laying a false trail" for the enemies.  And, never telling anyone.  Not until her husband was dying was the act revealed by him as a tribute to her humility.