“… there were a ton of signs similar to his story that caused me to realize he was calling me from Heaven to draw closer to him.”
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Lastweek,IwasonvacationinWyomingwithmyfamily.
Onthedriveout,IboughtabookonNicholasBlackElkinRapidCitytoreadonthetrip.WecreatedaTinySaintforhimaboutayearago,andIwantedtolearnmoreabouthislife.
WhoisServantofGodNicholasBlackElk?NicholasBlackElkandhisfamily/PublicDomainForthosewhodon’tknow,NicholasBlackElkwasaLakotaholyman,medicineman,andvisionarywhosawavisionoftheapocalypseofhispeopleandtheirrenewalasayoungboy.
Thevisionfeaturedtworoads–ablackroadthatledtodeathandaredroadthatledtolife.HelaterhadavisionofamanthatwasnotLakotaandwasnotwhitewithholesinhishandsstandingbeforethesacredtree(treeoflife).
HeinstructedBlackElkthattheFatherhadgivenallcreationtoHimandcalledtoBlackElk.Asayouth,BlackElkwasatthebattleoftheLittleBighorn/GreasyGrassandWoundedKnee.
HelaterconvertedtoCatholicismandbecameaCatechistfortherestofhislife,helpingthousandsofhispeoplewalktheredr
