If You're non-indigenous you're probably wondering what this page is about so let me help you.  The medicine wheel is found in every Native culture in the United States and is used to symbolically teach on many areas of life.  The term "circle of life" is used to describe the four colors relating to the stages of life.  As we move from white, to yellow, to red, and to black, we move through life.  

 

We are born in white, yellow is our teen years, red is our adult years and black is our mature, senior years.  The medicine wheel shows us two things: 1.) you must advance through the colors or stages of life.  You cannot go from white to red or yellow to black.  As you grow through each color you will learn things you need to survive as you approach the next color.  2.) you must advance!  You cannot permanently stay in one color.  Once you are born (white)  you cannot stay a baby, you must learn and grow.

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These same teaching apply to our spiritual life.

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When we are born-again we are spiritually born in the white.  So it doesn't matter what our actual age is.  We can be 70 years old when we become a follower of Jesus.  At that moment we are spiritually born in the white.  As in physical life, we must learn to walk before we can run.  There are spiritual  teachings we must learn in each color if we are to grow properly.  It will be very hard to grasp "black" teachings if you are still in the "white."  You must go through the yellow and the red first.

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So this is what I am saying.  The teachings in this page lean more in the black area but all colors can benefit from reading.  This is a word Bible study so I take the English translation and study the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic meanings and develop an interpretive meaning which is a lot of times very different from the English translation.

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So if you're ready, let's study together!​​