Family Ties to Legacy

​THE  FTL FAMILY PLEDGE

If we forget our Ancestors, our children will no longer give us honor

If we lose the path our Ancestors cleared in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way

If we banish the God of our Ancestors, our children cannot pray

If the old wails of our Ancestors fade beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying

If we abandon our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our children become befuddled giving birth to children they neither want nor understand

If we forget how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting "regard the loveless"

THEREFORE

We pledge to bind ourselves to one another

To embrace our lowest 

To keep company with our loneliest

To educate our illiterate

To feed our starving

To clothe our ragged

In honor of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brough us out of hopeless dissolution

WE MAKE THIS PLEDGE