soul ignition

Emotional health and stability is at least as important as mental health and stability, if not moreso; the two being often confused and conflated. Emotions deal with feelings. Mental deals with cognition. While they often interact, and feed off each other, feelings come first! Emotional stability can withstand mental instability, but mental stability cannot withstand emotional instability. It must and does give way. Many African American slaves found emotional stability in Christianity, as adapted by them for their comfort. Worship comforted their hearts, and their souls, despite the insults, the pains, the humiliations that chattel slavery bestowed upon their persons, families, mentalities. "He restoreth my soul," of the 23rd Psalm captures this spirit readily. For truly emotions are spirit-based. The soul is ignition. Birth is cognition. Maturity enables recognition. Recognition leads to ambition. Ambition requires rendition. Rendition is followed by fruition. After fruition follows remission, the cessation of ignition and cognition. Thus, our ancestors sang "this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine!"