Sacred Steps: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations for Our Moment (Sacred Migration, 2) Hardcover – January 12, 2027

Open your eyesFor you are standing on the threshold of changeThe end of the spiral of timeWhere dreams become so realThey birth another creation:A world with another chance To get it right.From Choctaw elder and retired Episcopal priest Steven Charleston, author of the beloved Ladder to the Light, Spirit Wheel, and other books, comes Sacred Steps, a collection of more than 175 original meditations on walking toward an unknown future with hope and courage.This book is a sacred, portable labyrinth--a testimony to the ancestral migrations that took human beings into new places and times. Charleston offers hopeful meditations on the theme of journeying for spiritual seekers. Drawn from Native American spiritual tradition but testifying to the universal human experience, these messages are steps along a path created by our ancestors, he writes, who prepared for us a way toward hope and peace.Delve into four characteristics of the spiritual traveler:- Perception is how we organize and define our vision of life.- Imagination is how we create and recreate our reality.- Humility is how we discover our place in creation.- Kindness is how we act mindfully and effectively.Reading and meditating on each message is how we follow the labyrinth. Sacred Steps can be read alone or alongside Charleston's Sacred Migration.We are walking the way of sacred migration in our mind and heart. We are following in familiar footsteps and yet walking toward the unknown, writes Charleston. With his trademark warmth, intuition, and sense of Spirit, he leads us toward a future of more love, more justice, and more hope than we see now. We are all citizens of a vast hidden land. And yet we are known intimately. Walking in a sacred manner, we become what we believe. Read more