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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.

  The above scriptures studied reflectively concerning the forming of the US and other colonizing efforts have not produced fruit of shalom or thankfulness for indigenous peoples. As far as the U.S. is concerned, honest historical study reports this nation nearly constantly in turmoil since her inception. The question those sitting around the turkey need to ask is who is thankful for what! Remember Yahweh is not mocked the blood crying out from the cursed ground demands justice, the people of the United States most not respond as Cain but respond with I AM my brother’s keeper. This will then begin the 2^nd Chronicles, “If my people… till then only one chorus of voices reach Heaven and their song is a bloody verse springing up from the ground!