And He went down into the caves of the past...

"And over our heads the hollow seas closed up." (SA, 104- 105) ~Primo Levi

Generations Appeared Again Last Night

They really did.  As we watched the ancestry series about Leopold Bianca’s murder and the family genealogical search to unravel the mystery, the synopsis of my own journey distilled before me.  This time I spoke it.  The help I was given from God has been profound---I mean, what other kind could it be?---I owe so very much to ‘go back to the beginning’ year of Jewish study of Scriptures and feasts.  After the Fall is important. And Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi and Margaret from Hungary all solidified my role as ‘witness’ which is much beyond the family ‘storyteller’.  Last night the whole process of spiritual generations unfolded.  I realized we have lost the sense of family generations which is a sin of omission---spiritual, psychological, social and emotional.  The ‘secret sins, follies and tragedies’ have gone ‘underground’ into the hidden wells of our souls and psyches.  God provided sacramental means for dealing with all the idiosyncrasies of sin and folly and crime.  These spiritual laws remain whether we are aware of them or not.  As long as we lived in the same village for generations there was a ‘communal’ means for justice and spiritual healing to unfold and one was not ‘alone’ in wrestling with these dark angels.  I have read much about justice, not only in Holocaust writings, not only in Scriptures, and not only in psychotherapy treatises.  What I do know from personal experience is that all must become common knowledge, transparent before the community, before in depth healing can occur.  Unless we belong to a ‘real’ sacramental community it is too dangerous for that to occur in our world.  All of the sacramental gifts so generously poured out by God have always been under attack by the envious enemy of souls.  When we sin there is a debt to be paid and reparations made; otherwise, we remain under the bondage of the spiritual law of love which is justice.  God in His Mercy sent us His Son to help us pay for the debts of sin but we have our own part in that redemption creation process.  It all starts with God confronting us when ‘we hide from Him.”  And we must tell the truth and face it before God can ‘clothe us.’