If Ashes Could Speak

Great entry.  

When I visited Dachau in Germany a few years back, one of the things I found so humbling was the varying memorials that surround the camp now. The Catholic memorial. The Jewish. The Christian. The Orthodox. It went on for ever. And it struck me how important the idea of prayer is in a place like that. How all can come together in the spirit of remembering... and that’s quite poignant.  

I thought about the prisoners cramped up in their wooden bunks, the scratch marks in the gas chambers (nearly had a panic attack), the piles of uniforms and shoes and glasses and teeth. How many prayers they must have said. How many utterances to God must have been whispered.  

To be perfectly honest I found myself saying a prayer walking round there. If there’s one place that ever symbolised a people that needed faith and hope, Dachau would be it.  

The ending of the poem reminds me of that part in Revelation where it talks of the new heaven and the new earth after the former world has passed away.  

Good to contemplate. Thank you for sharing.  

-M

I have a great fascination with WWII and whenever life sucks, it's good to read a holocaust survivor's account-- puts things in perspective that not matter what's happening in our own lives, someone has had a worse time.

Thanks for stopping by

At times we have wondered how Hitler came to power with all of the brilliant people in Germany during that time. Over the last four years, we have personally witnessed the rise of Hitler. But there is no destruction of energy, your soul, your spirit. The energy of humans is an everlasting force that returns to the universe only to be returned to man again in another form, or body. Should we look upon the ashes with tears or look upon them smiling knowing that the tree will grow again? Tight work Lady

Thanks for stopping by and at the risk of stoking the political fires, yes, trees will grow again after Biden.

We're not going to get into who holds the office because we don't truly believe that this is a two or three party system. The concept of divide and conquer, us against them is forever being flipped and reused against the masses. We think that in another four years some things will have been corrected or done. but and then other things will not have been done or screwed up even worse. We have absolutely no faith in man when so much money is at play and the lobbyist can bring out the green eyed monster in a saint

Agreed, only superficial changes are to be expected because the essential story remains unchanged.

Thanks for the reminder. have visited several camps in Germany. Hugs and peace, oral