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I share the following with you to enjoy and share. It is taken from the book "Voices In Your Blood" by G.G. Vandagriff. She writes:
"Discovering your heritage is a homecoming in the truest sense. The entity that we call "me" is the most recent chapter in a long line of stories, the stories belonging to those who make up our pedigree. Our ancestors have met life's challenges in their own particular ways and in doing so have bequeathed to each of us a uniquely individual heritage. Part of that heritage contains burdens that are difficult and part of it contains our richest blessings.
We all have a past. Down through the ages there was a love, a love between people of different places, different tongues and different times. That love ultimately created the person that is you. Every name tells a different story. You have thousands of stories in you. Though I have never known these people, I am a part of their posterity, and they have left a rich inheritance for me.
Lastly, perhaps the most important thing that happens to us when we claim our lost heritage is that we gain a unique perspective; we begin to understand what it is to be human, what it is to live a life where we learn from experiences - grief, sorrow, pain, joy, success, pride and triumph. Entering into our ancestors' emotions, by proxy as it were, we grow in charity and self-knowledge and lessen in fear.
Merry Christmas 2004!
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