Here's another sharing on that level, bruh.
As a young child, I grew up in rural North Louisiana before my mom moved us away so my formative years were shaped with an identity of my family land which had been in our fam since slavery. In the past, this land held 6 generations of my family, going back to my great great great grandmother. I always felt a sense of purpose as it related to this land.
Well, about 8 years ago, I had a dream of my grandfather. I never formally met my grandfather because he died before I was a year old. We both lived in the same house before he transitioned so those last few moments of his life he saw me every day. I always thought it was revealing because as his life was ending, mine was beginning. He was leaving out the door and I was coming through it. My Granny would tell me later in life that my Pawpaw would say, "That boy gonna do something in life. Tell Bonnie (my mother) she better watch after him." She also said when I used to cry he would say, "Somebody better go see about that boy. Do I have to get out of my bed to go tend to him?" He was gravely sick at the time. Although some times he would say, my granny told me, "Let him cry, one day he's gonna say something very important." He was a local Mason and I was told at the gravesite some Masons there passed me over his open grave and said some things, and then did some puzzling gestures. My Granny was Eastern Star, but she never revealed more than that.
So 8 years ago, he came to me for the first time I could recall in dream. He showed me two houses. He first showed me a house that was magnificent and stately. He gestured to the house and said, "This is how our family's house used to be." Then he showed me a house that was decaying and crumbling and said, "This is how our family house is now." He went on, not physically speaking but almost telepathically, to say "I want you to bring our house to where it was before." Next, in the dream, I was a little boy and my Pawpaw was tossing a ball to me. Once I catch the ball, the dream ended like "poof".
Well recent discoveries of a massive natural gas shale, the Haynesville Shale, in which my family's land sits on has me thinking about Pawpaw again. I have some plans to bring my family together so we can benefit in a substantial way that would be regenerative for many future generations of our family. I only hope my family is receptive as we both honor our past and ancestors while we celebrate our future.
In my opinion, all of us should institute a 7/7 plan for the maintenance of our families. I was told we should attempt to maintain a link from 7 generations in the past and establish a vision for 7 generations into the future. This helps to maintain and strengthen the circle of the lineage, ensuring prosperity and success for one's family and solidifying the return of those wise parents in the incarnation of wise children. As we say to the 7th generation is the power and authority.
Blackbird