Third Prayer Flag

Third Prayer Flag for the Murdered, Missing, and Exploited Women and Children of Juarez and the World. This prayer flag is like the first one that went to Juarez. In the background is the creation prayer flag (see photo below). All stitches are done with prayers. All three prayer flags have been blessed by a Catholic priest with prayers and holy water.

Prayer Flag for Abused, Murdered, Missing Women Throughout the World

This is about the second prayer flag with the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on it, for the women and children exploited, abused, and missing throughout the world. Similar to Tibetan and Native American tradition in the sense that every stitch on this flag is made with prayers and meditation, it's not to be bought or sold on exhibition to raise funds of any kind. On February 17, 2008, a vision came to me of a prayer flag for the murdered, missing, and exploited women in towns along the US-Mexican border. The flag is made up of pink crosses which form the image of the Virgin Mary. The pink cross for the last few years has been used to represent these women. This flag was delivered to a Mexican minister and his wife in El Paso who knew women's organizations well and promised to deliver it to them discreetly. This new flag is similar in every aspect, with its encompassing the women and children of the world who exist under conditions of extreme poverty, exploitation, missing and murdered. I am doing this flag for the Blessed Mother because she has requested this. These women and children are of great concern to her. She is requesting that this be given the greatest importance because it affects the entire peace of the world and the core of humanity. Addressing and solving this huge problem is of key importance to achieving peace in the world. She says we cannot have success in solving other world problems without addressing this one.

Update

I am working on two flags right now. One is the ongoing Creation flag. The new flag is 6x9 feet with white background, with an image of the Virgin Mary aka the Immaculate Conception. This will be made like the last one with pink crosses sewn with prayers of meditation representing murdered, abused, enslaved and impoverished women and children throughout the world. The starting point focuses on Juarez, but it encompasses women and children anywhere throughout the world where they are mistreated.

Photos of Prayer Flag August 4, 2009

Final Entry

This vision started out February 17, 2008, when I asked the Great Spirit of Life to give me a vision. What came to me was this flag for the women of Juarez, which was a picture of the Immaculate Conception which was made up of small pink crosses, sewn with prayers. Pink crosses represent the murdered and missing women from the factories along the Mexican border. They also represent women and children in conditions of poverty equaling slavery throughout the world.

There has been a struggle that I have been devoted to since 1981, when my dreams and visions led me to the Four Corners area where I met Grandfather Thomas. I met him when I heard him speaking about things that I had seen in my dreams and visions for the months before I came there. So I must bring this up as I consider it of the greatest importance that it be included in my final entry. Please help stop the land in the Four Corners area from being mined. According to the Hopi prophecy, your children’s children’s children will remember you for this with gratitude.

I started this blog also to show the struggles of one American who has no high school diploma or GED. I bring up my education in the hope of showing that it doesn’t take education to seek truth or higher consciousness. It does, though, require sincerity and tenacity to overcome fear and prejudices. I have found in this journey that finding true reality lies in continuous breathing, continuous change, and not holding on to anything.

After I delivered the flag, I had a new vision: a 9x12-foot flag (the dimensions aren’t important) also sewn with prayers and meditation, with a 6-foot hole in the center. When you look through the hole, you see the creator’s art work, you see creation.

In closing, I have these last two things to say. A woman asked me what kind of prayer she should do. Maybe I can’t answer that directly, but I’ll give a prayer that I aspire to. The prayer goes like this: Great Spirit of all heaven and earth, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Great Creator, grant that I should not seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that we receive and in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born into eternal life. This is my version of the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Finally, as I look through the center of the flag, I see myself.

Hökto.

Prayer Flag

This prayer flag is showing the creation of life in progress. As you view the art work in the center, you may see, feel, or hear the Artist at work. As I sew and pray I enjoy being close to this art work and the Artist. About the Artist, whom I call The Great Spirit, some comment and say the Artist who created this work I see before me has no focus or centered creativity. As for me, I am very creatively centered by observing this work. This flag is open to the public 24/7 for viewing and working on.

Prayer Flag April 2009