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Website “Home” Pages can be boring at times. But this one is about
                            Moving Mountains.

And that’s not boring at all!

You may think that moving mountains is impossible! It isn’t!

You have within you the courage, the strength and the energy to move a mountain or two. But sometimes it’s not so easy to find that inner strength. We may search within, and search again and again because some presumptuous person told us that on a Blog.

But not just any Blog . . .
This is a blog called “God of the Sparrow,” a Blog with a promise that God watches over us, and probably graces us with whatever we need to move those mountains!

So follow us for Blog Posts filled with inspiring thoughts and challenging life quests. The Posts may ask you to dream and then to follow your dreams wherever they lead you. The Posts might make make you laugh, or cry. They might call you to contemplative thought. They may beckon to you to examine your life, searching for your places of sorrow and your places of joy. The posts might call you to seek God in a fresh way and to pay closer attention to your personal spirituality.

The Blog will push you at times to move inward in an honest examination of your life . . . your desires, your dreams, your passions. And sometimes a Post might pull you away from stagnation or harm when you are in danger of losing your soul.

The Blog Posts represent a spiritual journey that you and I will travel together, in community. So I welcome your thoughts, comments and reflections along the way.

I would love to hear from you. Please join me on this journey by sharing your comments below and by clicking the “follow” button at the very bottom of this page.

Blessings to you,

Rev. Kathy Manis Findley
Pastor, counselor, advocate, minister at large

 

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INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I am privileged to live. I give thanks for their stewardship, and I pay my respects to elders past, present and future.

I express my deepest appreciation to the Indigenous Americans who centuries before me walked the paths I now walk. I acknowledge that I live on the ancestral lands of Indigenous Americans who were removed from their homes unjustly. I have been a beneficiary of that removal, so I honor them as I live, write, paint, study, and plant flowers on this patch of land.

The land is known as the Cumberland River-Indian Creek Watershed. Mindful of our centuries-long history of injustice, I affirm that I reside on land that was the ancestral home and culture of Indigenous Americans of the Chickasaw, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations, whose homeland was taken and ceded from them by the government.

The Hitchiti Nation also made their homes on an area of land that is present-day Macon, Georgia. Additionally, the ancestral territory of the Hitchiti Nation (Hitchiti-speaking Lower Creek people) were believed to inhabit the area of the Lower Chattahoochee River. The Native Americans of Georgia were officially removed from the state and forcibly resettled in Oklahoma by 1839. Few remained, yet remnants of the Hitchiti culture have been found throughout the state of Georgia, including the former Belle Meade Plantation, which enslaved hundreds of Black people in the 19th century.

Through generations, we have enjoyed the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Georgia. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.

Rev. Kathy Manis Findley
Macon, Georgia