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Native American Story

“Stand Still"

Unknown Author

This is a story of a North American native girl who asked the question, “What do I do when I am lost in the forest?

A real question of many of our youth’s, corporate officers, community leaders, families, husbands and wives……

What do I do when I’ve lost sight of what my life is about? When I’ve given up myself and turned it over to someone greater or when I feel lost over life.

And so, the child asked the elder…
What do I do when I am lost in the forest?

Stand still
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost!

Stand Still
You are not lost

Stand Still
Wherever you go it is called HERE….
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger must ask permission to know it and to be known.

Listen the forest Breaths, it whispers,
I’ll have made this place around you
If you leave it you may come back again saying HERE.

No two trees are the same to a Raven and
No two branches are the same to an ant.

If what a tree or a branch does is lost on you than you are surely lost.

Stand Still
The forest knows where you are.

Stand Still
The forest knows who you are.

You must let it find you.

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