Thorgrun's observation in Part One, "To honor our ancestors is to honor our descendants," goes well with my own comment: “We are all ancestors in training.”
Someday we will be dead, whatever that means. Hopefully we have left sons and daughters - and grandsons and granddaughters! - to tell our stories and to pour libations on our graves. As the Havamal says - “Seldom are [memorial] stones erected on the wayside, save by kinsmen for kinsmen.”
How will you be remembered? Did you do deeds of worth? Were you true? Did you love much? Did you fight for what was right? Were you Awake, or did you live your life in trivialities?
If we lead good lives here in Midgard, we will be good ancestors.
“Only when we realize we are a river will we stop drowning in puddles.”
Steve McNallen
Asatru Folk Assembly
http://runestone.org
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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