We are watchers of a beacon...

by - February 12, 2022

 It's about 1:15am and I just finished watching a movie titled "Hidden Figures"...

Summary of the movie as captured by 'Noire Histoir' - "a 2016 movie adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.

 The film tells the story of three Black women who used their talents in mathematics and engineering to aid in America’s quest to successfully put an astronaut into orbit and safely return him to Earth. Pushing against racism and sexism, these three women would emerge as pioneers in the S.T.E.M. field and inspirations beyond."

If we look closely at our own ancestry/lineage, we would find stories of  these and more; Courage. Hard work. Determination. Perseverance. Resilience. For some, there may not be a lot of 'good stories' but I believe there would be at least, one! And one is enough to inspire! :) It's always a beautiful thing to be reminded of the awesome lineage we can trace our families to. Men and women of courage and truth. Faith of our fathers, holy faith...we will be true to Thee till death! Hallelujah!

Old photo from Wegbe-Kpalime; commissioning a project


This hymn came to mind:

For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee,
Our God, our fathers’ God;
Thou hast kept Thy pilgrim people
By the strength of Thy staff and rod;
Thou hast called us to the journey
Which faithless feet ne’er trod;
For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee:
Our God, our fathers’ God.

For the love of Christ constraining,
That bound their hearts as one;
For the faith in truth and freedom
In which their work was done;

For the peace of God’s evangel
Wherewith their feet were shod;
For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee:
Our God, our fathers’ God.

We are watchers of a beacon
Whose light must never die;
We are guardians of an altar
That shows Thee ever nigh;

We are children of Thy freemen
Who sleep beneath the sod;
For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee:
Our God, our fathers’ God.

May the shadow of Thy presence
Around our camp be spread;
Baptize us with the courage
Thou gavest to our dead;

O keep us in the pathway
Their saintly feet have trod;

For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee,
Our God, our fathers’ God.

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