When Ancestors Weep

<p>We are all beautiful souls made in the image of God full of inherent value dignity and worth. Yet we may struggle to accept this truth because our attention is often diverted to focus solely on outward appearances and behaviors. In other words we all live with some degree of ignorance of our soul consciousness. We may get glimpses of it but we never attain the full extent because physical emotional and psychological issues cloud our vision of who we truly are. For example diseases and illnesses do afflict us in the body. We do feel physical and emotional pain with so much intensity at times that we believe it is going to break us in two. At times our lungs may struggle to take a breath or hunger and diseases cause our stomach intestines bones muscles and blood to scream in agony. These experiences might make us question whether or not we are the soul whom God has created. However this illusion lies not in the suffering pain and agony we experience but rather it is in the perception that there is nothing more to us than an emotional intellectual and physical body. Indeed physical and emotional pain and suffering can temporarily drown out the cry of our soul but our soul is never silenced. Furthermore the truth is that the greatest strength of who we are as souls lies in our ability to transform and transcend physical emotional and psychological limitations.</p><p>The greatest effect hearing the cries of our ancestors has on us not only comes from getting in touch with our own soul's voice but also awakens us to hear the cries of those who have no voice today. There has always existed in society a pattern of disenfranchising the weak and wounded-people who have been labeled as unlovable untouchable and therefore unreachable. For some disenfranchisement was due to their disease or illness. For others it was due to their poverty. Still for others it was due to their gender race religion politics or social class. Many in society preferred such people not to be seen let alone heard from. However just as the cries of our ancestors and those who have been the victims of crimes against humanity can never be silenced and so too are the cries of the disenfranchised heard above the din of everyday life. Their cries are not only heard deep within the soul but their pain is also given a voice through those who speak for them.</p>