I just finished seeing the movie, "12 Years A Slave". I am not interested in seeing anymore slave movies. The injustice done to Solomon Northrup was an atrocity. Then to think no one reaped via the legal system for it though they were wrong.
As I continue to reflect, I think of other things, such as...
1. How do we teach our children to know who they are to the point it cannot be beaten out of them?
2. Teach my children how to be angry but not use it to justify wrong actions.
3. Am I using my freedom to be all that I feel I am called to be?
4. When is "I'm tired" truly a justification for not doing anything towards my goals and rest?
I am fueled to make the suffering of my ancestors and those that went before me COUNT by LIVING...not just surviving. That looks like something, such as pushing pass the injustices that still occur today because my conditions are nothing compared to what they endured. It looks like, not letting fear or my insecurities cause me to be silenced or incapacitated from taking the next step for permitting a natural/supernatural progression. It's also evaluating some of my disciplines and responses and changing those things that no longer serve me or the work that I am to do.
Seeing a movie like this has the power to anger me to change what I hate about the things that I have accepted as true and acceptable, or simply be mad about what occurred in the movie and at times still do. I choose the first. I am angered to love even when loving seems like the weakest thing to do though it is the strongest of all. Then, act I a manner that is honorable and honoring for both myself and the "great cloud of witnesses".
