Light Of Life



The second day Brian and I were in Taos, New Mexico, we visited the Taos Pueblo, located 1 mile from the town on a 95,000-acre reserve.

 

 

The Taos Pueblo is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Tiwa-speaking Native American tribe known as the Puebloan people.



 

 

 

Today, approximately 4,500 people live in this very private, secretive and conservative pueblo.

 

 

It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States, with the adobe structures estimated to be over 1,000 years old.

 



Each self-contained home consists of two small rooms, one for general living and sleeping, and the second for cooking, eating, and storage.

There is no passageways between the houses.

In the pueblo, electricity, running water and indoor plumbing are forbidden.

The adobe homes are mudded every year and are passed down from one generation to the next.

Many docile dogs run freely on the property. I took a picture of this one puppy waiting patiently at the entrance way of an adobe home, hoping for the owner to invite him in.

 

The Puebloan people's religion is a combination of their original indigenous spiritual and religious tradition and Roman Catholicism. In other words, they need Jesus! and my heart went out to these lovely people. Everything in my being wanted desperately to tell them Jesus is the light of life.

 

"In Him was life,

and that life

was the light

of all mankind."

John 1:4 (NIV)