Post by nathanael on Oct 22, 2008 3:26:00 GMT -7
Understanding is right spirit, and when it comes to love, right spirit is everything. Cultures cannot die until the right spirit is in them (this includes Native cultures)! The balance between body and spirit is everything. Modern materialistic influences gravely upset this balance. Many antique tribes are becoming endangered, or extinct. This problem isn't just "native." Christianity has been grappling with the same thing for two thousand years! Enticed by the pleasures of the body, people forget that love does not end with the body: there it only begins! Love that ends with the body and in the body is the worst of spiritual deaths! While acknowledging the body, love must always transcend then body. For all true love is channelled from spirit to Spirit, which is God! My Polish-American advice to Christians, Alaska Natives, all Natives, is: Do not let your spiritual sense be extinguished!