The Teaching of the Anvil and Root
This teaching employs the metaphor of the anvil and roots to illustrate our deep connection to the earth and our responsibilities as its caretakers. It emphasizes the importance of using the earth's resources wisely, ensuring that we preserve them for future generations. The anvil symbolizes patience and precision, reminding us to approach our actions with care and intention, much like crafting metal. We are encouraged to use our strength and skills to support and protect others, rather than cause harm. These teachings inspire us to build communities founded on love and joy, where our collective strength enhances the well-being of all. By treating the earth with kindness and respect, we contribute to a safe and harmonious world, aligning with the Creator's vision.
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Gifts from the Earth
“Beneath the skin of the earth lie gifts and tests. This stone holds metal that may be used to save or to squander. Hear now: to draw from the earth is to accept a covenant. Take only with blessing, work with thanksgiving, and shape each piece as you would shape the fate of a child.”
Sharing Resources
“Strike only until the vein yields for your need. Leave other seams for those who come after. Keep the water clean that runs from the cut.”
Discipline
“The anvil teaches discipline. The strike must be measured. A blade that is too quick is brittle. A heart that strikes without measure is brittle also. Temper your craft as ye temper your heart - with patience, prayer, and purpose: to defend the small, to shelter the innocent, to keep hearth and child from the night’s harm.”
Building with Love
“A wall is not a heart. A wall must be born of love, not of hatred. If ye build a fortress that closes your neighbors out, ye have not built; ye have walled your own hearts. Build so the children may laugh within; not so a few may rule in fear.”
Watching with Wisdom
“To stand watch is to practice love in wakefulness. The watchman who trusts only in sharp eyes and not in prayer sees only men’s shapes; the watchman who trusts only in God and not in skill may be slow to see. Combine the two - God’s sight with the craft of the hand - and ye watch with wisdom.”
Strength
“Strength is woven as much in the mother’s hand as in the smith’s. You who keep the seeds and bake the bread are the true bulwarks of this place.”
Using Force Wisely
“Use force as a midwife uses her hands - only to bring forth life, to pry open that which is closed so that breath may come. Do not use force to savor power.”
Protecting with Purpose
“Remember this, beloved: to protect is holy; to hurt without cause is the shadow of the soul. Let your strikes be few and heavy with justice. Let your walls hold laughter, and your watch be a song of peace.”
Sacred Messages
Read the sacred words of The Peacemaker of the Americas to the Peacemaker in each one of us. Let us walk in Light, Kindness and seeking always unity as equally as we seek water.
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“Beneath the skin of the earth lie gifts and tests. This stone holds metal that may be used to save or to squander. Hear now: to draw from the earth is to accept a covenant. Take only with blessing, work with thanksgiving, and shape each piece as you would shape the fate of a child.”
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“Strike only until the vein yields for your need. Leave other seams for those who come after. Keep the water clean that runs from the cut.”
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“The anvil teaches discipline, The strike must be measured. A blade that is too quick is brittle. A heart that strikes without measure is brittle also. Temper your craft as ye temper your heart - with patience, prayer, and purpose: to defend the small, to shelter the innocent, to keep hearth and child from the night’s harm.”
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“This is not for glory, If the blade cannot be wrapped about a babe and kept, it is not rightly forged. Let your weapons be shields of the weak and proof against the cruelty of those who would devour the small.”
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“A wall is not a heart. A wall must be born of love, not of hatred. If ye build a fortress that closes your neighbors out, ye have not built; ye have walled your own hearts. Build so the children may laugh within; not so a few may rule in fear.”
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“To stand watch is to practice love in wakefulness, The watchman who trusts only in sharp eyes and not in prayer sees only men’s shapes; the watchman who trusts only in God and not in skill may be slow to see. Combine the two - God’s sight with the craft of the hand - and ye watch with wisdom.”
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“Strength is woven as much in the mother’s hand as in the smith’s. You who keep the seeds and bake the bread are the true bulwarks of this place.”
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“Use force as a midwife uses her hands - only to bring forth life, to pry open that which is closed so that breath may come. Do not use force to savor power.”
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“Remember this, beloved: to protect is holy; to hurt without cause is the shadow of the soul. Let your strikes be few and heavy with justice. Let your walls hold laughter, and your watch be a song of peace. The Father is the maker of all things - so be you makers of safety, not fear. Mine the earth with reverence. Forge with mercy. Build with love. And in all things, let the heart be the anvil upon which the world is shaped.”