living witness tings: finish history’s task

11/24/18–We are alive to finish a task started long before us. In order to complete it we live to listen for the Divinely-relayed instructions; we pay attention to what characterizes our alotted space in history for implementing our mandate on time, in time. These things we see transpiring around us with: “My how times have change!” and “Back in my day...” and “What’s going on these days?” etc. are occurrences of note. They seem sidereal when isolated, but when their narratives are archived in a tome and placed in the library of ancestory, create history. .

Are you living to testify to what you have seen in your times? Are you contributing your book to your ancestral library? Respect what it means to be a living witness. You may be the last to have experienced the consequences of a law. You may be the last to have felt that river flow without pollution or the glow of the setting sun unhindered by a new building on the street. You too may be the last to have seen a tragedy, victory, or other event. Regard your times with pen in hand. The next generation needs your personal testimony to know what to write next. .

(Image via Workers.org, 2018. Olivia Hooker. Last survivor of the Black Wallstreet Massacre in Tulsa, OK, 1921. First Black woman to join the coast guard. Telling time until 103. Elder-turned-ancestor, 1915-2018.)