THERE IS HOPE

We are officially out of the lukewarm season generally referred to as “winter”. I have had laughs about people that forgot to change their clock settings……. I wasn’t a victim though…… very clever I am indeed….my time was never changed from last year (laughs).

We are officially on Easter break from University. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Almost every one I knew was on the verge of a breakdown…. myself inclusive…. We finally broke down ……albeit in laughter……to what a term it had been.

We are officially celebrating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Everywhere I turned to, someone was talking about the slave trade. My curiosity began to grow and I went all out in search of the details. I was aghast at the things I read, I couldn’t help but feel the pain, the shame, and the inhumane treatments the slaves received. Feelings of hopelessness, where the dawn of a new day is not something to wish for……
weeping may endure for a night…..the morning only brings more sorrow.
People dug in deep to stay alive…… but death they received…… by being thrown into the sea…… they couldn’t stay afloat.
The church also was a culprit in this scandal….owning a slave farm at the time.

200 hundred years on…… after the heroics of Wilberforce and everyone that fought for the abolition, we, the generations after still do not know what to do with ourselves.

Are the perpetrators meant to apologise? ….. are the victims meant to forgive and forget?…… should we celebrate?…… should we put our heads up?…..down? ….. or should heads roll? …… and whose head?

One major positive about the openness of this discussion is......now we can be healed…… all us….. from guilt, from pain, from anger.

On the morning of 25/03/07 (1807)…. The slaves that were alive would have confirmed these words of hope

“Weeping may endure for a night…..but joy comes in the morning”

The same is true for your life….. Who would have thought that the whole world would stand.... put their hands up and turn to their inner selves and set the slaves free for ever ……but they did.

Your problems do not need the whole world to solve it …… Have hope, have faith…… joy is on the way.

It may look bleak…… just hold on…. Easter is only a few days away…… JESUS DIED AND HE ROSE……. So we all have hope…..for ever.

HAPPY EASTER