Treatment by Ed Preston, RScP
Prelude
I have been challenged by Rev. Christian Sorenson’s Daily Message for April 1, titled “Your Healing Chant”. He says,
“ The Native Americans learned their chant from their vision quests or it was passed on to them by their grandfathers. It was a powerful statement of their Wholeness that connected them to ancestors, bringing a sense of peace. It was a chant they repeated many times throughout their lives, in times of challenge and difficulty, allowing them to reclaim presence and awareness from the adversity of the moment. At the time of death, without thinking, this well-used chant would come to mind, bringing comfort during the transition, allowing them to remain consciously aware, rather than being consumed and loosing control of fear … then following their chant through the threshold.”
I have had a chant that I have used for almost 20 years and that I thought of as I read this message from Rev. Christian. Then I was challenged again by Amy, our choir director at Celebration Center, who gave me the words to “Colors of the Wind”, from the Disney movie, Pocahantas, also very Native American. So, a new chant:
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Treatment
I hear my God as the wolf cries to the blue corn moon.
I join with the grinning bobcat, knowing why he grins.
I know all the mountain’s voices join me in a chorus.
I so gratefully paint with all the colors of the wind.
I accept and release the wolf, and bobcat and mountain, and the wind
Into my Eternal Divinity.
May all of you who read this find you know the Colors of the Wind.
Treatment for April 9, 2015