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Martin Luther King said, “The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.”
No one understands this better than the Creator. The Creator has had to deal with the incomplete one Ogo/Yurugu, who was the first to create imbalance in the heavens. As above so below tells us the first born of humanity must also have a similar dimensional experience. The Creator is using the experience with Ogo/Yurugu for educating self, understanding self and perfecting self. Africans must do the same. Both the Creator and Atum-Khepera are metaphors of resilience.
Atum-Khepera's Resilience
by Ancestors through Usiku
Het-Heru the elephant
Takes steps that are giant
Weight powerful as gait
Impresses ruts where she struts
Khepera the beetle keeps up
Transforms dung deposits
To her young's benefit
Her children know how to exit
Out of inherited matrix
Though path is obstructed
And full of slip
Problems they continue to fix
Restore self and all else to oneness
Thus the process of becoming exists
“I have learned to appreciate obstacles in life, to the point where I thank the Creator for giving me the rough times, for allowing me another opportunity to prove I am the man I say I am and believe I am. So instead of cursing the winds that blew it to you, bless the winds for having brought it to you and rise above the issue because it's not what happens to you that's important, it's how you handle what happens to you that's important.
This is what Khepera represents, the process of becoming.
All of the rough things you have to go through, all of the things that are challenging you, instead of whining and wondering why me, say I'm so happy it's me, cause now I can do something, I can prove what I say to myself, because what doesn't kill you makes you strong.” This we know to be true as a people and as firstborn of the Creator's human children, ability, resilience and strength is created inside each of us trillions of times. (Quotes from
“African Cosmology w/ Dr. Kaba Hiawatha Kamene”)
Something Inside So Strong as sung by Lira (originally written and sung by Labi Siffre)
Purpose Of Negativity
“The purpose of negativity in human experience based on Optimal Theory is to serve as a mechanism for growth and edification toward realization of unity consciousness, that is, Oneness with Supreme Being. Accordingly, the human being may not always have control over what happens to them, but they always have control over the meaning
they make of it and how they feel about it. Thus, one’s experience of the circumstance or condition, which when wielded can ultimately transform the circumstance, condition and its meaning.”(1)
(1) Myers, Linda James, Ph.D. & Speight, Suzette L., Ph.D.,
"Reframing Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Persons of African Descent: Africana/Black Psychology Meeting the Challenges of Fractured Social and Cultural Realities,"The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2010, June), vol.3, no.8, p. 74.
