Today, December 23, 1990, my beloved wife and I were married. In the Dakota language, Wičháȟčada is your husband and Winúȟčala is your wife.
As my father is a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe and my mother is Chickasaw, I never learned to speak Dakota fluently, but my father was a scholar of the spiritual meanings of Dakota.
He went to great length to instruct me, as I grew up, the spiritual meaning of many Dakota words and phrases. He said that Wičháȟčada and Winúȟčala, mean the greatest, the truest, the most genuine man or woman. That is is the bottom-line of how I feel about my beloved wife, who has been with me every step of the Journey.
Our Sacred Teachings and Spiritual Experience is that any love that we have had for another, in this physical world, will not be forgotten in the Spiritual Worlds to come. Nor will we forget this physical world when we journey to the Spiritual Worlds, the Worlds of Light.
Thank you, Beloved Creator, for this eternal blessing!
