We Can't Go Forward In Freedom Unless We Hold Where We've Been
So, here we are. The journey that we began so long ago, really began in slavery. Look what we lost -- and look what we found. Are we better off now? We hope so. It doesn't always feel that way.
But to really know where we've been, we have to know who we are -- the parts of ourselves we mourn, the actual people we have lost, the hopes and dreams we shed along the way, the bitterness and sweetness we've encountered that has been unpredictable, not what we thought, not who we were, but who and what we are.
Really? Are we too old for our youthful dreams? Too young to know our wise truth?
No.
But it's all different than we thought it would be.
God doesn't give us a Disney fairytale. There isn't a happily-ever-after, neat-and-tidy ending, roll credits... WE AREN'T DONE!
So look around, look within... Who are you now? Who are the people around us? What is the story now? Not the one from ten years ago, not the one from fourteen months ago, but NOW.
Can we open ourselves to the story unfolding with us, all around us, and within us? We have to ask and listen, ask and listen, in order to enter the truth, the hope and spirit of the promised land. Examine our previous and current fears, and look at the way we are making ourselves ready to go where no one has gone before.
We all have the capacity to hear, the capacity to learn, and the capacity to support every voice in freedom and hope, with love and gratitude.
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