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[title] => CHEROKEE LEGEND
[time] => 2010-06-08 18:11:02
[hometext] => A Cherokee Legend we can all benefit from, just like this young man.
[bodytext] =>  "CHEROKEE LEGEND" Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage? The father takes his young son, blindfolds him, leaves him alone in the forest to forage. He must sit on a stump the whole night, never removing the blindfold until the rays of the morning's sun shines through it, cannot cry out nor be consoled.  Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys, he must take his own stand. Each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy was naturally terrified all alone! He could hear all kinds of noises, he imagined wild beasts around him. A human may even do him harm, his faith grew dim......... The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stumpy berth He sat stoically through out the whole night To be a man this had to happen to be right! After a horrific night the sun appeared He removed his blindfold, his manhood neared.  He then discovered his father sitting next to him protecting him from harm All night, with his sidearm.  We too are never left all alone, during the day or entire night. Our Loving Heavenly Father is always there beside us, all is all right!  "Throw your burdens upon me and leave them," he states.... Broad shoulders has he, don't take your burdens back, an "Indian Giver" he hates. I created this story out of love I can't be certain it's an authentic Cherokee Legend, but I loved the theme.  consue “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with sweetness the independence of solitude" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882) *Manly Smiles* [comments] => 7 [counter] => 202 [topic] => 19 [informant] => lovingcritters [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 12 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems )
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