WORTH READING 15 Sep 2006

They Are Playing Our Song

When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes
out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and
meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that
every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavor and
purpose. When the women attune to the song, they sing it out loud. Then
they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else.

When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child's song
to him or her. Later, when the child enters education, the village
gathers and chants the child's song. When the child passes through the
initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing. At the
time of marriage, the person hears his or her song. Finally, when the
soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at
the person's bed, just as they did at their birth, and they sing the
person to the next life.

There is something inside each of us that knows we have a song, and we
wish those we love would recognize it and support us to sing it.

In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the
villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the
person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called
to the centre of the village and the people in the community form a
circle around them. Then they sing their song to them. The tribe
recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not
punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you
recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that
would hurt another.

A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you
have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you
have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your
beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your
innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

If you do not give your song a voice, you will feel lost, alone, and
confused. If you express it, you will come to life. We attract people on
a similar wavelength so we can support each other to sing aloud.
Sometimes we attract people who challenge us by telling us that we
cannot or should not sing our song in public. Yet these people help us
too, for they stimulate us to find greater courage to sing it.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to
you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when
you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good,
what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it
doesn't. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well.
You may feel a little warily at the moment, but so have all the great
singers. Just keep singing and you'll find your way home.

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