You call the Great
Spirit, Jesus, in your language; we call him in the Crow language,
E-So-We-Wat-Se. I am going to light the pipe and talk to the Great Spirit. The
Great Spirit has made the red man and the white man, and sees all before Him
today. Have pity on us. See that our hearts are true. We ask Thee to see that
we do that which is good for us and our children. We smoke this together before
Thee, O Great Spirit. So may our hearts go together to Thee and be made good
and right.
Blackfoot
Crow
We
have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can
be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all,
it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of
a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and
understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try. Those
having religious affiliations will find nothing disturbing to their beliefs or
ceremonies. There is no friction among us over such matters.
We
think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify
themselves with as individuals. This should be an entirely personal affair
which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his
present choice. Not all of us join religious bodies, but most of us favor such
memberships.
Big Book pg. 28
Great
Spirit make our hearts true whatever path we walk.