She Found Freedom
You might
think life begins with birth and ends with death, yet there is so much more.
The past is not dead and gone. It lives in our DNA like seeds germinating and
sprouting in their own perfect season.
This is a
portrait of Minnie May, my great-grandmother. Like most Americans, she didn’t
know her own history. She didn’t know she came from a long line of freedom
fighters and seekers. As Huguenots and early followers of Martin Luther, they
fled France, settled in England and later in the American colonies. The
believed as did revolutionary, Thomas Paine: “You have it within your power to
begin the world over again.”
Minnie May
was a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, a free thinker if there ever was one. Eddy
believed that thoughts created matter and right thinking brings about the
healing of mind, body and spirit.
Minnie May
had freedom in her bones. She must have felt it! She carried the DNA of
centuries of freedom seekers. Now, their DNA lives in me. I have been imprinted
for freedom by the medieval Chevalier, the knights, lords and ladies, pastors
and pioneers.
I speak
their names out loud—William Morin de Landon, Lord William Landon, Deacon
Langton, Thomas Kilbourn who landed in Plymouth in 1635…
I carry them
further than they could have imagined into a new world where the only limit is
our own mind.
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©Claudia Rose, Ph.D.
Bravo for your DNA. And for your recognizing the lineage that you carry.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful portrait of your bloodline.
Thank you! Your acknowledgment means so much to me.
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