(Galatians) Small Man to the Sacred Families in Land of Pale Skins 6
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CALLED TO BE BURDEN BEARERS
1My sacred family members, if someone among you has given in to broken ways, you who are guided by the Spirit should lead this person back to the right path in a spirit of gentleness. But keep a close eye on yourselves, for you may be tempted to do the same kind of thing. 2Bear each other’s heavy burdens, this way you are walking a path that brings full meaning and purpose to the law of the Chosen One. 3The people who see themselves as something when they are nothing have become their own trickster.
4Each one of you should take a good look at your own deeds. Then you can feel honor in the good you have done without comparing yourself with others. 5For all of us have our own burden basket to carry.#6:5 The Apache and some of the other southwestern tribes have burden baskets. They are often used in a coming-of-age ceremony in which the new generation accepts the responsibility to carry the burden for its generation.
GOOD AND BAD SEED PLANTING
6The ones who are instructed in the message of the Chosen One should share all good things with their teacher.
7Let no one mislead you. You cannot make a fool of the Great Spirit. Whatever you plant is what you will harvest. 8If you plant the seeds of your own broken humanity, you will harvest only death and decay. But if you plant the seeds of the Spirit, then from the Spirit you will harvest the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. 9Never grow tired of doing what is good. For when the time is right, we will reap a harvest of good things as long as we do not let our hearts fall to the ground. 10So then, whenever we are able, we should do good to everyone, and most of all to the members of our sacred family.
FINAL WORDS TO REMEMBER
11Take a good look at the large letters I use to write to you with my own hand! 12These men who try to force you into participating in the cutting of the flesh ceremony do so for the wrong reasons. They do not teach the full meaning of the cross of the Chosen One out of fear of being hunted down and harmed by their own Tribal Members. 13For even those who have participated in the cutting of the flesh ceremony do not themselves keep our tribal law. They only want you to participate in the ceremony so they can brag to others about what they did to your body.
14May I never brag except in what our Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, has done by dying on the cross. For I was nailed to the cross with the Chosen One. That is how I died to the ways of this world and how the ways of this world died to me. 15So it no longer matters whether one participates in the cutting of the flesh ceremony or not. What matters is that you are a new creation in the Chosen One.
LAST WORDS
16May peace and mercy rest on all who walk true to this way of seeing and thinking, and on the people of the Great Spirit who together form the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel).
17Last of all, let no one trouble me any longer, for on my body I bear the scars that mark me as a follower of Creator Sets Free (Jesus).
18My sacred family members, may the gift of the great kindness of our Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, guide your spirit on the road of life.
Aho! May it be so!
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