Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
THE SANKOFA CHRISTIAN
THE SANKOFA CHRISTIAN
Luke 9:62 says, "Jesus replied, 'No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.'"
Reconciliation of this scripture with the Sankofa Bird imagery --of going forward while looking backward--is a big stretch indeed; it evokes Lot's wife who looked back and was transformed into a pillar of salt. But, because we do diametrically opposing things, seemingly, continuously, like inhale and exhale, why not try it?
Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keeps the law, happy is he"
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Which vision? The past vision or the future vision or both? Is there both? Can there be both? Is there a of quantum entanglement?
There is both. There can be both. There has ever been both. There is ever synthesis in antithesis; as otherwise the dichotomy could not be. In negation lies affirmation; as inverse supports converse; and obverse fronts its reverse. In sum, It is as the blues man says, "that same thang!" Thus, in a circle or in a sphere we have come right back here to where we began; to where oh Lord, my God, we first met thee! Still here, but in our minds so far away.