Repose is a state of rest, sleep or tranquility. The Lord believed in rest and even designed spaces for it.
In Isaiah 28:12 To whom he said. This is the resting place, let the weary rest and This is the place of repose, but they would not listen.”
Listen to your body and rest. Listen to your spirit and rest.
Today we will talk about how in 1976 the South African government declared a state of emergency. For 13 years the children of South African resisted. Often referred to as the Soweto Uprising, a musical was written called Sarafina.
It tells the story of how thousands of children were beaten and tortured. 8,000 children were in prison. This story is about South African teenagers fought against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
We first saw this story on Broadway. I remember because at the end there was a song Free Nelson Mandela. I can’t put into words what that experience was like, but WOW.
Beyond entertaining, the message of this movie moved me. Nelson Mandela has become one of my favorite people in life.
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.
Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research.
During a period of financial and medical difficulties, Hurston was forced to enter St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where she had a stroke. She died of hypertensive heart disease on January 28, 1960, and was buried at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida. Her remains were in an unmarked grave until 1973.
Repose:
a hush upon the breath of time,
where weary thoughts dissolve like mist
and silence cradles the soul in velvet arms—
a stillness not of absence, but of grace,
where the heart forgets to ache,
and the world, for a moment,
remembers how to be gentle.
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.
Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research.
During a period of financial and medical difficulties, Hurston was forced to enter St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where she had a stroke. She died of hypertensive heart disease on January 28, 1960, and was buried at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida. Her remains were in an unmarked grave until 1973.
Affirmation of Repose
I speak the stillness into form,
A vow beneath the quiet storm—
Where breath is soft, and time forgets
To race, to ache, to place regrets.
I claim the hush between each thought,
The peace the rushing world forgot.
This moment—mine, in calm’s embrace,
A temple built in open space.
I do not chase the rising sun,
Nor beg the stars for what’s to come.
I trust the moon to wax and wane,
And rest in rhythm, not in strain.
The world may turn, the winds may blow,
But I am rooted deep below.
A tree that leans to sip the light,
Yet sleeps unshaken through the night.
In stillness, I am not less strong.
Repose, the pause that rights the wrong.
I gather strength in being still—
I am enough, and always will.
— So let me breathe, release, restore,
I am the quiet I was longing for.
In this episode we will talk about the movie Black Panther. It is one of the Marvel family of films, distributed by Disney. It made 1.3 billion dollars in box office. Black movies do sell. It was nice to have a brown super hero and for him to have his own movie.
It was nice to have brown people saving other brown people
Wakanda created an amazing space for brown people.
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.
Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research.
During a period of financial and medical difficulties, Hurston was forced to enter St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where she had a stroke. She died of hypertensive heart disease on January 28, 1960, and was buried at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida. Her remains were in an unmarked grave until 1973.
It’s all about rest, stillness, and calm—both physically and mentally. I welcome moments of stillness and repose, allowing my mind and body to renew in peace
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