While walking down life's dusty road,we at times find ourselves carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders  or very heavy crosses, and sometimes there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer as to why ...Many people act differently to having such heavy burdens. There are some people who,for whatever reason, will push their crosses off on others to carry for them, and they never learn the lesson of the cross  and  they will probably be carrying that cross for a very long time or will have to carry it again ,only the next  time the cross may be much heavier.  While others will gladly step in to help carry the burden for a while, but in doing so the person whose cross it is,only learns part of the lesson. That person will more than likely be carrying that cross again.  And it only gets heavier each time it is carried.  Then , there  are others who will quietly carry their own crosses and learn all the valuable lessons needed no matter what the circumstances or reasons for having to carry such a heavy burden.  This I know with all my heart, God loves us each and every one and He never leaves our side ,not for a minute. And when we fall under the weight of the heavy burden of the crosses we carry , He is there and on Eagles Wings He lift us up and He helps us on our way.  My Grandma told me this long ago, when my daughter died.  She said "Stay strong and hold firm in your faith and know that this too will pass. When God sends these crosses , it's for lessons to learn and He loves us all so very much. But remember this,  He sends the heaviest crosses to those He loves the most. "

Sharon Littledove (c) 2008

I Believe......
I believe that when you speak from your heart  ,people will listen .
I know that when I went into the light and was wraped so tenderly within the
folds of pink and gold. I was loved so completely and there was no judgement,non at all , I was the one who judged myself and it was over in a second. Then, I was given these words to share "What you put into this world ,You will get back".
What I believe to be true is that when you put Love, goodness and honesty into this world ,that is what will come back to you. If you put judgement and resentment, anger and hurtfullness out into the world, that is what will come back to you.
I believe that love is the key to open up eternity. For in love there are no bounds and in love there is freedom that allows the spirit to live and grow. Love only needs itself to grow and it fills an open heart till it overflows ,spilling out  ,touching others and coming back again. 

Introduction to Sharon's friends

Posted on Nov 22nd, 2008 by white bear Sharon,

Thank you so much for inviting me to partake in all the love that flows from your eternal spring. I am honored to share my few skills, knowledge, and love with all your community members. I'm a little pressed for time this morning, so I've decided to just paste my latest overview of the Perpetual Harvest Greenhouse System (PHGS), because it includes contact info, a brief explanation, and a few links to other interesting ideas and green technology available on the Internet. I am happy and grateful for the opportunity to share the knowledge that Spirit has gifted me.

Peace,
chris



I represent a group of organic pioneers who plan to make the development of sustainable communities a Grass Roots Movement in the next ten years. The first cornerstone in the foundation of a sustainable community should be a constant supply of healthy food. If you will take a few minutes from your busy schedule I will prove to you that we have developed a year round organic food production system that can put fresh, nutrient dense, organic produce in the mouth of every citizen on Planet Earth, 365 days a year.

My name is Chris Marron, and I have a passion for controlled environment greenhouse farming. I have been researching organic food production for the past 25 years. My late wife and I started small with a desire to feed our family the best food we could grow, and over the years we studied everything we could find about organic farming, and eventually developed a unique system that we call "Perpetual Harvest Greenhouse System" (PHGS). I have tried to bring this system into the public view for the last ten years but, until recently I found mostly deaf ears, no matter how loud I yelled.

I am grateful that others have also been trying to change the way we feed ourselves, and now there is proof to my theory. Please visit: http://tinyurl.com/59hrtt It will describe an $80,000,000 greenhouse complex that encompasses 10 football fields (81 acres), that operates year-round in England. This greenhouse is only one of ten that will be in place when the construction phase of the project is completed. The only real difference between this project and PHGS is that we grow nutrient-dense, organic produce.

Columbia University is operating a Website called: verticalfarm.com . They are confident that 30-48 floor, high rise buildings are a viable option for growing produce. On one of this site's pages they quote a Cornell University Website which states, that they have produced 23 times more food per acre than commercial California farmers average and they used 30 times less water per pound to irrigate in their greenhouse system which is similar to PHGS. Please visit: http://www.verticalfarm.com/plans-2k6_eco.htm and then scroll down to "ESTIMATED MAXIMUM YIELD".

Are you aware of an electric generator that uses 195 degreeF hot water for fuel. http://www.utcpower.com/fs/com/bin/fs_com_Page/0,11491,0167,00.html You can examine this wonderful new system in use at Chena Hot Springs in Alaska. http://www.chenahotsprings.com/index.php?id=90 They are using the geothermal energy from the hot spring to power, heat/cool the whole resort, including their greenhouse which operates year round. We can use solar thermal techniques to get our water hot enough to operate this fueless power plant, here in our warmer climate and places that don't have geothermal resources at their disposal.

As we worked to get all the bugs out of this system we became aware that PHGS is also the answer to the question; how do we devise a plan to  put to good use the single greatest, unused, natural resource we have today? Of course I am speaking of the incredibly large, volunteer workforce that is available. In the United States and beyond, there are millions of unwed mothers, students, seniors, disabled folks, prisoners, and church and community organizations. Most of these people find themselves caught in a "Catch 22". That is, they lose a dollar from their entitlements for every dollar they  earn doing part time work. Since organic foods have become so overpriced, these folks almost never get any. So, I am confident that many people will be happy to work for a basket full of fresh, ripe produce instead of a paycheck.

More importantly, I believe that students should be given the chance to put organic produce on their cafeterias' menus while they learn the very best way to provide good health for themselves and families. America has become stagnant and unhealthy, because we ceased to be the most productive country in the world. If the people of the USA and beyond will just take a look at what the people of Cuba have done with their economy, just by localizing food production, we will also have arrived at the right path to economic recovery. After energy production, food generates more money than any other industry on Earth.  If we can keep a large percentage of that capital in our local areas then our economy will also thrive.

We took the best from:

Greenhouse Technology.
 
Hydroponics Technology.

Permaculture Principles.

Organic Principles.

Sustainable Heating and Cooling System Technology.

100% Natural Composting Principles.

And the production of super high energy water, just like it came from a thunderstorm with hundreds of lightning strikes.

Please visit our Website: http://www.perpetualharvestgreenhousesystem.com/ and if you are interested in opening a dialog about a possible joint venture or even a free consultation, please contact me.

Respectfully,
Chris Marron
(815) 383-1727

P.S. An incredibly efficient biofuel source description just arrived in my mailbox. Please take a look, this system will make cold season growing even more viable as a business, because I am confident that the algae production will work well as a living shade cloth for the greenhouses.
 http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html

I have walked upon the mountain of the whispering winds.
I have climbed to the place where the eagles nest and walked the open plains where the wild ponies run. I have sat beside clear running streams and heard its' song being played as it flows gently over the rocks.
I have sat on the floor of a silent forest upon a thick carpet of lush green velvety moss and there I await to be cradled as a child within the arms of the Earth Mother. There, she teaches all who come with a weary ,burdened ,or wounded spirit how to feel and how to heal for she listens and she loves. She takes all the pain onto herself as we weep upon her breast.What she gives in return is the promise that the creator gave us with each beautiful new day. He gave us the gift of breath,the gift of life. He gives us a chance to start again fresh and new. She teaches us how to count our blessings through the choices and the lessons that life can bring.She teaches that it is how we master each challenge that reflects our balance and how we grow.
On that day when I climbed the mountain of the whispering winds, through love I have learned many wonderful things and as I sat there in the silence I found a miracle, there was a rainbow and my joy has returned and an attitude of wisdom that celebrating life can bring.

Sharon Littledove (c) 2008

In the trail of the wind there are many that are broken, many that feel lost, many who await the return of truth ,so He comes, Truth comes with a crown of thorns in the night.
So we dance, we dance our prayer and we dance our sacred song and the fire rises from deep within and we are consumed with the flame for our prayers can bring true all the we carry from deep in the soul. And we believe ...
The spirits of old wander the corridors of mist in the night and with the breath of a new day as it was fortold long ago that on the wings of the eagle comes a new nation and the buffalo did come as they prayed it would.
This day has come they didn't die in vain ,So we dance our prayer,and we dance our sacred song, a sacred dance in the night, flames rising, on smoke they rise while dancing our prayer, a sacred dance in the night.

Sharon Littledove (c)2008


Here is the story that I found several months after I after I wrote this piece, I guess this explains why I was guided to write it

The Wounded Knee Massacre
December 29, 1890
Ghost Dance Religion


By the late 1880s, many Indian tribes, desperate and facing a dire existence of poverty, hunger and disease, sought a means of salvation to revitalize their traditional culture. The evolution of a new religion, the Ghost Dance, was a reaction to the Indians being forced to submit to government authority and reservation life. In early 1889, a Paiute shaman, Wovoka, (son of the mystic, Tavibo, whose teachings influenced the new religion) had a vision during an eclipse of the sun in which he saw the second coming of Christ and received a warning about the evils of the white man.


Knowledge of the vision spread quickly through the Indian camps across the country. Word began to circulate among the people on the reservations that a great new Indian Messiah had come to liberate them, and investigative parties were sent out to discover the nature of these claims. On one of the excursions, it is said that the messiah appeared to an Arapaho hunting party, crowned with thorns. They believed him to be the incarnation of Jesus, returned to save the Indian nations from the scourge of white people. Delegations were sent to visit Wovoka in western Nevada and returned to their camps disciples, preaching a new religion that promised renewal and revitalization of the Indian nations. Among those who met with Wovoka, Good Thunder, Short Bull, and Kicking Bear became prominent leaders of the new religion which was called the Ghost Dance by white people because of its precepts of resurrection and reunion with the dead.


According to Wovoka, converts of the new religion were supposed to take part in the Ghost Dance to hasten the arrival of the new era as promised by the messiah. Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs banned the Ghost Dance (as they did all other Indians spiritual rituals), the Lakotas adopted it and began composing sacred songs of hope:


The whole world is coming,
A nation is coming, a nation is coming,
The eagle has brought the message to the tribe.
The Father says so, the Father says so.
Over the whole earth they are coming,
The buffalo are coming, the buffalo are coming,
The crow has brought the message to the tribe,
The Father says so, the Father says so.

The Ghost Dance religion promised an apocalypse in the coming years during which time the earth would be destroyed, only to be recreated with the Indians as the inheritors of the new earth. According to the prophecy, the recent times of suffering for Indians had been brought about by their sins, but now they had withstood enough under the whites. With the earth destroyed, white people would be obliterated, buried under the new soil of the spring that would cover the land and restore the prairie. The buffalo and antelope would return, and deceased ancestors would rise to once again roam the earth, now free of violence, starvation, and disease. The natural world would be restored, and the land once again would be free and open to the Indian peoples, without the borders and boundaries of the white man. The new doctrine taught that salvation would be achieved when the Indians purged themselves of the evil ways learned from the white man, especially the
drinking of alcohol. Believers were encouraged to engage in frequent ceremonial cleansing, meditation, prayer, chanting, and most importantly, dancing the Ghost Dance. Hearing rumors of the prophecy and fearing that it was a portent of renewed violence, white homesteaders panicked and the government responded.


The government agent at Standing Rock, James McLaughlin, described the Ghost Dance as an "absurd craze" -- "demoralizing, indecent, disgusting." Reservation agents described the Indians as "wild and crazy," and believed that their actions warranted military protection for white settlers. But while one of the primary goals of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was to convert the Indians to Christianity, they did not recognize that the fundamental principles of the Ghost Dance were indeed Christian in nature and had the effect of converting many to a belief in the one Christian God. In addition, Wovoka preached that, to survive, the Indians needed to turn to farming and to send their children to school to be educated. Ironically, while these efforts would appear to coincide with the goals of the Bureau, the Ghost Dance was outlawed by the agency. The Bureau feared the swelling numbers of Ghost Dancers and believed that the ritual was a precursor to renewed
Indian militancy and violent rebellion.
~Unknown Author~

Dearest Ones,

We love you so very much,

As your mother earth stretches, creaks, and groans, know too that
you are starting to feel the growing pains associated with movement
after a long period of dormancy. The movement, dear friends, is in
your heart. As you approach your celebrations of the holidays -
celebrations that mark the miracle of light coming into the world -
know that God's light is awakening in a greater way within each
and every one of your own hearts. You are wanting more expression,
kinder treatment, more honesty and integrity. You are seeking out
the company of those of like mind and like heart and wanting less
time with those who choose to view themselves as powerless. Many of
you are releasing the urge to 'fix' others and worried about
whether or not you will still have compassion in your hearts as you
experience this new sense of freedom.
dear ones, this is simply growth. You are simply realizing greater
truths - that each soul upon the earth is the one solely
responsible for their vibrational state, their beliefs, their
attitudes, and their behaviors. You can help and encourage others
but you can't do the work for them. The greatest gifts you can
give others is the example of a life well lived, and spiritual
wisdom when it is requested. You can share also your resources, but
share from a full cup. Pass along the things that line your
cupboards that you no longer want or enjoy. Share from an abundant
heart, for GOD dear ones, truly provides for all. God inspires
those who have lessons in giving and honest joy in doing so, to
give. And God also inspires those in need to receive. God knows the
needs of all and if everyone were to listen to the dictates of
their heart, there would be no hunger, no homelessness, no hurting
hearts. The urge in your heart to smile at a stranger might be the
comfort they need to keep going that day. The urge to receive a
hug from a friend might be the comfort YOU need to keep going.
These principles can also be applied to your holiday gift giving.
Ask God to guide you to give meaningful presents, and you may be
surprised at what pops into your mind. It is not the expensive
gifts that mean the most dear ones, but the gifts of the heart -
your time, your love, your energy, you words, and your wisdom. It
is time to return to simple pleasures, like an orange in a
stocking, or a jar filled with happy memories you've taken the
time to recall and write. It is a time to share sentiment rather
than stuff.

This holiday dear ones remember - your presence is the present to
the world and those around you.

We love you so very much.
~ The Angels ~