Thanksgiving?
Listen; hear the widow wail over the cold stiff orphan crushed into her breast fruitlessly holding the life already taken. Her voice joins the blood crying out from the ground that once provided life. This ground given by Creator, their ancient land, ancient boundaries gifted to them since the days of, “Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided;”, Genesis 10:25. This ancient land has blood crying out the blood like Cain’s, “crying to Me [Yahweh] from the ground.” , Genesis 4:10. Mingled throughout the cacophony of misery falls the master’s unanswered cruelty cracking upon flesh the ripping whip drawing blood flowing and falling to the ground. African captives taken from their ancient lands becoming the foundation of economic stability of blood stained land taken from widows and orphans made through the genocide of the peoples of this land.
There is a “Manifest Destiny”. There is predestined outcome. The blood crying out will find justice! “And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”, Genesis 4:11. This blood cries out about moving ancient boundaries, society/city/country built upon bloodshed, wages withheld or forced slavery, stealing from widows, orphans, and weak; Deuteronomy 19:14 & 27:17, Proverbs 22:28 & 23:10-11, Hosea 5:10, Jeremiah 22:13-17, Micah 3:9-11, Habakkuk 1:13& 2:8-17, Jeremiah 5:20f & 7:1f, Deuteronomy 24:14-15 & 17-18.
