🪶 Before You Move Outward, You Have to Sit in the Center --- Medicine Wheel #2
🪶 Before You Move Outward, You Have to Sit in the Center
After writing the last post, something settled in me.
If the Medicine Wheel begins anywhere,
it begins in the center.
🪶 A Quick Reminder
If you’re new to this, the Medicine Wheel is simply a way of walking with God that moves in a pattern.
It doesn’t start with doing.
It starts with being.
Everything begins in the center…
and then moves outward from there.
Not in action.
Not in knowledge.
Not in fixing the world.
In remembering.
🌿 The Mother’s Lodge
The center of the Wheel is sometimes called the Mother’s Lodge.
Think of it like the place you return to before you move anywhere else.
That name matters.
Because it’s not a courtroom.
It’s not a testing site.
It’s not a proving ground.
It’s a place of habitation.
You don’t stand in the center to be judged.
You sit there to remember who you are.
🕊️ Three Things the Center Teaches
When you sit quietly long enough,
three truths begin to surface.
Not shouted.
Just gently rising.
First:
You are already here because you were meant to be here.
Second:
You carry something inside you that did not originate on earth.
Third:
You have noble agency — and no one is allowed to take it from you.
That’s it.
If that settles in your bones,
the rest of the Wheel starts to make sense.
🌄 The Peacemaker at the Center
In the Nemenhah teaching, the Peacemaker stands in the center.
Not to command.
To safeguard.
He safeguards agency.
He safeguards your right to choose.
He does not coerce.
He does not manipulate.
He does not demand obedience before understanding.
That’s important.
Because many of us were raised believing obedience must come first.
But what if understanding comes first?
What if love comes first?
What if relationship comes first?
🌾 Discernment vs Indoctrination
This is where things get real.
There’s a difference between:
Faith that has been examined
and belief that has been inherited.
There’s good in the faith of our fathers.
There’s also cultural baggage.
Discernment is not rebellion.
Discernment is honesty.
It’s asking:
Do I believe this because I understand it?
Or because I was told I must?
That’s not arrogance.
That’s maturity.
And it honors the Peacemaker more than blind compliance ever could.
🔥 Obedience Revisited
Let’s talk about obedience for a minute.
I used to think obedience meant:
Do it because He said so.
Now I’m beginning to see something different.
When you truly draw near to Him,
when you actually listen,
when the Holy Ghost shows you what to do —
obedience stops feeling like pressure.
It feels like alignment.
It feels natural.
Like the dust obeying gravity.
Not because it’s afraid.
Because it’s in harmony.
That’s very different from checklist religion.
🌊 Why the Center Matters
If you skip the center,
the outer parts of the Wheel become dangerous.
Knowledge becomes pride.
Action becomes performance.
Judgment becomes condemnation.
But when the center is steady —
Knowledge becomes curiosity.
Action becomes service.
Judgment becomes balance.
Everything depends on the center.
🌿 You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured Out
This part took me years to accept.
You don’t have to solve every doctrine.
You don’t have to untangle every theological knot.
You don’t even have to know exactly where you stand on every issue.
You just have to be honest.
The Wheel is not climbed in a day.
It’s walked in circles—returning to the center each time, seeing a little more.
And every time you come back to the center,
you understand it a little more deeply.
🪶 The Quiet Question
So here’s the question I’ve been sitting with lately:
If I am already worthy to be here…
If the Peacemaker safeguards my agency…
If I am meant to listen, not perform…
Then what would it look like to stop proving myself
and simply draw near?
That question alone might change a life.
Next time, we’ll move outward a little.
We’ll talk about Knowledge —
what it really means,
and why gathering information without fear
is one of the most sacred things you can do.
We’re not in a rush.
Just walking.
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📜 THE CENTER — AS SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES IT
If this idea of “the center” is real…
we should be able to see it reflected in the scriptures.
And quietly, we do.
🕊️ Christ at the Center
- Book of Mormon — 3 Nephi 11:14–15
- “Arise and come forth unto me…”
👉 The invitation is not outward first
👉 It is toward Him
🌿 Abiding, Not Striving
- Bible — John 15:4
- “Abide in me, and I in you”
👉 Not perform
👉 Not prove
👉 Abide
🔥 Stillness Before Direction
- Bible — Psalm 46:10
- “Be still, and know that I am God”
👉 Knowing comes in stillness
👉 Not in constant motion
🌱 The Spirit Leads Gently
- Book of Mormon — 2 Nephi 32:5
- “The Holy Ghost… will show unto you all things what ye should do”
👉 Guidance flows from connection
👉 Not pressure
🕊️ Peace Is the Signal
- Doctrine and Covenants — D&C 6:23
- “Did I not speak peace to your mind?”
👉 The center is not confusion
👉 It is peace
🔁 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LEAVE THE CENTER
| Rooted in the Center | Disconnected from the Center |
|---|---|
| Peace | Pressure |
| Listening | Performing |
| Relationship | Obligation |
| Guidance | Confusion |
| Alignment | Striving |
🌱 A SIMPLE WAY TO CHECK
Before moving outward — into action, belief, or decision —
you can quietly ask:
👉 Am I acting from peace…
or trying to get back to it?
That question reveals a lot.
🪶 FINAL THOUGHT
The center is not a place you earn.
It’s a place you return to.
Again…
and again…
and again.
And every time you come back,
👉 the noise settles
👉 the pressure lifts
👉 and His voice becomes easier to hear
That’s where everything begins.
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