Thanx Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: Beckstrom, Barbara A Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:44 PM To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [KYCLAY] RESPONSE TO JESS's - ON THINKING OF ANCESTORS Very well said Renee. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: RENEE SMITH [mailto:hrsmith40@msn.com] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:09 PM To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYCLAY] RESPONSE TO JESS's - ON THINKING OF ANCESTORS Our ancestors could not have possibly envisioned our world as it is today - yet I am sure many hoped and prayed for such. That being a world now more inclusive, more diverse, a world wherein all persuasion of folk are beginning to try to embrace one another in a way that our forefathers felt impossible. All the secrets, lies, mistruths that were passed along from generation to generation. The purposeful misinforming of their descendents. Truths they felt needed to be kept well-guarded are tid bits that we can only hope will help to bridge divides and provide a richer future for generations to come. Our ancestors could not have envisioned our having at our disposal the world wide web and mailing lists -a means of folk from all corners sharing information. >From: "jess wilson" <jswlsn@prtcnet.org> >Reply-To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com >To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [KYCLAY] ON THINKING OF ANCESTORS >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:30:12 -0400 > >ON THINKING OF ANCESTORS > >By Jess Wilson > >When we consider that we have two parents, four grandparents, eight >great >grand parents, ad infinitum, we realize that if we continue this thinking, >we soon arrive at a number of ancestors that is greater than the population >of the people on this earth at that time. Then we realize that if within >the multitude there was one individual that was someone else than who they >were, we would also be someone other than who we are. > >It is sobering to think that we are who we are as a result of all the >happenings to the human race since the beginning. Every war, famine, >pestilence, plague, devastation or flea bite that ever happened may have >had some bearing on our being born who we are rather than being someone >else. > >Now think of all the pain and suffering endured by our multitude of >forebearers, the wounds that were inflicted in wars, the stubbed toes >suffered by barefooted children, the labors of child birth and the tortures >of being burned alive. > >Now, consider this: Imagine that in our crowd of ancestors during the >17th >century there was one individual that was a captive brought from Africa in >the bowels of a stinking slave ship. There chained to lie in their own >filth with only enough room to breathe. That individual suffered more hell >that all the others put together. Three days nailed to a cross would have >been a picnic compared to this and all of it might have happened just so >you would be born you and I was born me. > > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/2003