Burden I Carry

Jared smiled and opened his hand out and upturned toward Liam and said, "No one is perfect," as he chuckled.

Liam thought for a moment and asked, "Should we be dressed for this Jared?"

"Liam," he continued, "We are here before the creator the way we were born, and we are not hiding behind our clothing. Open in spirit, mind, and body to the Creator. It is the way we were born into this world."

Liam nodded his head.

"I am a healer in the spiritual world. My grandfather taught me many things as it was my path in life to follow. My spirit guide is the Bear, the healer. The Creator has granted me some abilities to correct things that need correcting or are not right. These abilities were given to me after my vision quest. I have learned to turn off the gifts, except when I need to use them or they come forward in my mind with a task.

"Liam, every person has a path to walk in life and make decisions as to how they travel the route. I am sometimes in a position to help them get them back onto the correct one. These people are like a link in a chain. Some of these people will have a direct impact on other people, or they will set up conditions where another person does have an impact, " explained Jared.

"I am considered a Shaman by some, a Christian in other environments. The two beliefs work well together. In reality, when you understand the spiritualism of the First Nations, you find a lot of commonalities or parallels with most of the dominant larger faiths. After all, we were practicing our spirituality many hundreds of years before the major faiths of the dominant cultures came about."

Liam looked and asked, "Is this why I hear you pray each time you work on a patient?"

"Yes, it is Liam," Jared said. "I am just a link in the chain from the creator, and nothing special. I am as human as the next person, Liam. I am just a man who does what the Creator needs. We shall start now."

Jared used a wooden match to light the first candle. While doing this, he chanted, "I invoke the light of the God within. I am a clear and perfect channel. The Light is my guide."

Jared did this for each of the 3 candles. Using the center candle, he lit the smudging bundle and tapped it slightly in the bowl until the flames were out and smoke was rising from it. Jared stood up. He drew the smoke with his hands towards his heart and over his head.

He did this for each arm, over his shoulders and pushing the smoke down his back, his stomach, the groin, and each leg as well as under the feet. While doing this, he chanted prayers, which Liam immediately realized were not in English.

Jared stood up and said to Liam, "Stand with your legs apart and your arms away from your body slightly, palms facing me." Liam complied and took the position. Jared picked up the smudge and the eagle feather. He began to chant again as he used the feather to push the smoke to Liam's heart.

Jared said, "We cleanse our hearts so that our hearts will feel the truth, grow with us in harmony and balance, be good and pure, be open to show compassion, gentleness, and caring for others.

Jared asked, "Liam, use your cupped hands to pull the smoke over your head and down your back." Liam did so. "Stand as before," Jared said and spread smoke down the arm before moving to Liam's chest. He spread smoke over Liam's abdomen and groin.

He used the smoke to cleanse Liam's legs. Jared repeated the process of using the eagle feather to spread smoke down Liam's back, arms, lower back, buttocks, and down each leg. He asked Liam to raise one foot up.

The bottom of the foot was smudged, and Liam got the idea to put his foot down and lift the other. "We cleanse our feet so that our feet will seek to walk the true path, seek balance and harmony, lead us closer to our families, friends, community, walk closer to our loved ones, and help us to flee our enemies, and lead us closer to our Creator,," said Jared.

"Please kneel as you were before Liam," asked Jared. Jared then went through the same procedure on himself, cleansing his body. They were both kneeling when Jared resumed. He rolled the smudge bundle until it was out and then snuffed each candle while saying, "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Creator."

Jared looked at Liam and asked, "How do you feel?" Liam looked at him and replied, "Happy, peaceful, I can't describe what I am feeling in words. I have clarity in my mind like never before, and I feel energised. I now understand that losing the patient yesterday was just part of the life cycle. We can't fix or save everyone. It is the path of life"

"That is the way it is meant to be. You now know what it is to be cleansed, " said Jared. Jared looked at Liam and with a sly look said "it's pretty fucking awesome isn't it." Liam stared, giggled, and then started laughing.

They both stood and hugged each other tightly. Jared said, "Let's have a shower and hit the gym for a workout. Afterwards, we need to shop for a few things including some more food." Jared led Liam to the shower and turned the water on, setting it to a good temperature.

The shower was larger, 2 tiled walls and 2 glass walls. There was a rainwater-style shower head over the top of it, allowing the water to pour down onto the person, feeling similar to a heavy summer rain. Jared led Liam into the shower and turned to pull him in for a kiss.

They stood there kissing, allowing the water to run over their heads and down their naked bodies. Jared stepped back and grabbed the shower gel, squirting it into his hands. He placed his hands on Liam's shoulders and started to wash them. Reaching for a face cloth, he squirted more gel into it and rubbed it all over Liam's chest and groin.

"Hmmmm. Something getting hard down here" said Jared as he gently touched Liam's dick with the face cloth and washing it. He used the face cloth to stroke up and down the growing shaft.

Jared used his other hand to toy with Liam's balls. He stood up, looked Liam in the face, and pulled him into a hug. While they kissed, Jared began to wash Liam's ass crack with the face cloth, washing gently up and down crack and over Liam's rosebud.

He threw the cloth down and grabbed each of Liam's ass cheeks and started to massage them. He reached one finger up and started to circle the little muscle buried between the cheeks before sliding it in.

"Oh, Jared," Liam exclaimed as Jared was slowly inserting the finger into the very tight opening. "Oh yes," said Liam as he tightened his hug with Jared. Jared toyed with Liam's asshole pushing his finger in and out very gently.

The two of them were rubbing groins and dicks together with growing abandon. Their actions of massaging each other's bodies as well as rubbing their hard cocks into each other went on for a few minutes.

The two of them were now very close to cumming. Jared continued to grind his pelvis while fingering Liam's asshole when he felt some contractions from Liam's asshole on his finger. Liam stood still while he came with his cum smearing between both his and Jared's bodies.

The sensation of Liam's warm cum between them and on Jared's dick was enough. It pushed him over the edge as well. Wave after wave of pleasure hit Jared as he cum. They both stood there, hugging tightly, letting the shower water run over them.

Jared and Liam broke apart. "Good thing the apartment building has a large water tank eh?" said Jared.

"We need to wash up again" laughed Liam. They finished their shower, dried off each other, and went to the bedroom. Liam looked at Jared and said, "I don't have any clean clothes here."

"Although I like the look of you running around naked, it might be frowned upon in public. We are about the same size, so you can borrow some of mine," Jared said.

"I am not wearing any of those ragged boxers," Liam said. Jared struck his tongue out at him.