This workshop is a continuation of the theme of “My Personal Creation Story,” with a focus on our life purpose on Mother Earth:
I recap the last workshop about I, as a Spirit Being in the Spirit World, who sat on a rock overlooking an ocean and having a conversation with Gichi Manitou (Creator) who asks me, “What are you going to do with your life?” And as we converse, I tell Gichi Manitou how I want to spend my life on Mother Earth. And then it takes me 9 moons to travel from the Spirit World to Mother Earth.
I speak about the Bundle that I carried with me on my journey to Mother Earth. Anishanaabek call this a Medicine Bundle. This can be an object or an idea. Essentially, it refers to the talents or inherent gifts we have been given to facilitate our life purpose. I want to impress on the writers that this is not affiliated with any particular spiritual practice or belief, that this Bundle can be an idea that can be interpreted as a passion, talent or gift we inherently possess.
As an example, I shared what is in my personal Medicine Bundle, that I have objects that I keep: One item is my late grandson’s red plaid shirt because he taught me how to nurture my spirit child because I didn’t have the opportunity to actually be a child during my childhood. He taught me as his grandmother, that I can also be a kid. He taught me how to play and imagine like a sacred child. I added that his shirt also helps me get through times of grief and loss.
WRITING PROMPT: What is in your medicine bundle?
RESOURCES:
Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese (author)
The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway, Eddie Benton-Banai (Chief, Three Fires Society)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyRXCG_c28, an interesting example of a Medicine Bundle that has been adapted to personal preference.