#fools crow

“We are called hollow bones for our people and for anyone else we can help, and we are not supposed to seek power for our personal use and honor.”

~ Fools Crow, Lakota

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"In order for us to use our power well, we must become a hollow bone. We must prepare ourselves to become a channel. Our channel must be clean before we can use our power well. We must be free of resentments, guilt, shame, anger, self pity and fear. If these things are in us, we cannot be hollow bones. These things block us from our power. The cleaner we are, the more power we move. We must become a hollow bone so the Creator can use us to do what he wants us to do.

My Creator, remove from me today all resentment, anger, fear, guilt and selfishness. Do not let my weaknesses stand in the way of my usefulness to You. Make me a hollow bone so Your power can flow through me."

~ 𝓢𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓸𝔀 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓔𝓵𝓴 𝓡𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷

A bit of History:  As a young boy I was fortunate enough to be born and grow up in the country. We had horses (although I was too young to ride) an apple orchard, irrigation ditches (which I loved to dam up to the chagrin of the local farmers:) and miles of marvelous Nature to explore. Family life was quite dysfunctional so Nature became my “God” early on. So much so that when I attended Church the few times that I did, I saw no Life there - only coloring books of Jesus and a few songs. When my Mother would call for me to go on Sunday morning, I simply hid out in the Orchard until she left. She finally quit after 3 or 4 times of that.

   Over the years I soon grew very connected to my Native Heart. I began to be ‘directed’ to certain events, certain purchases, even certain Ceremonies. I also became introduced to various People from a place a Shamanic friend calls “Upper Earth” for lack of a better term. I was ‘Gifted” certain word initially that soon became Prayers and Songs. And, through all of this, I also became a student of Theology eventually teaching classes in “Basic Comparative Religions” at the HS level. Through all of this, my daughter kept pushing me to ‘write a book’ but that never happened....then she encouraged me to at least create a blog in which to share what I have learned over my 60+ years......and this is it:)

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Fools Crow

Frank Fools, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race.  Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970's. He describes his vision quests and his becoming a medicine man.

“Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.” –Fools Crow, LAKOTA

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