12/12/2024
My hands are clean:
I have never done harm to someone as to feel the stain against my heart. Though admittedly I have been disappointed in myself or actions I take form time to time, but overall the person I am is intact while as it were. Does that make me innocent? To some degree, but I also realize that the choices I made were the ones laid before me. Not often do I think about the choices I did not have to make.
You are the sum total of the hopes and the dreams of the people that brought you here to this day, place, time and opportunity. The choices you make were the ones that the people who love you have allotted for you to make. The path you walk may be free of obstructions for the plows and the people who paved your way to freedoms they would never feel. The dirt remained on the bottom of their feet.
Understand that it was not for your doing that you are who you are, but for the sacrifices of the ones who came before you and I. Your hands are clean for the dirt that was placed on the hands before yours came to be. Let our choices into the future reflect the dreams of the ones who brought you here. In Jesus's name I pray I don't not fail them.