Nothing is certain. Science tells us that there is no thing at all that we can be absolutely certain is true. Nonetheless, there are things that each of us believes, to a certainty, are true. What fills that bill for you? The belief in the Creator? The belief in the ancestors? Some believe in nothing....

They milled and mingled and stomped their feet against the cold, in their thousands, in their hundreds of thousands, and the liquor flowed. They cheered to warm themselves in the cold night, as they marked the passing of the year in the place called Time. They laughed and sang. For joy, or to cast out fear? The brilliantly shining talisman stood upon the tower in the center of Time, in the city that is the brain of the country that rules the world. And this image was multiplied, electronically, a billionfold.

Through science, a belief in science above all, they fashioned an empire that spans the globe. The gods of math and science and commerce, the Trinity of the West, have measured everything, to everything assigned a number, a digit. And now what?

And then the shining globe atop the Square at the center of Time, and the World, began to fall. And they prayed to the god of number intoning the sacred single digits backwards to the "O" that is nothing and also the infinite, the circle......

Scant minutes afterwards, the sea of white dispersed, becoming lost in a city of many hues, in the Empire Nation that is becoming increasingly diverse. And is it not written that the meek shall inherit the earth?

Now that numbers have done their work, and the world is united as one, the old creeds, the original faith shall begin to blossom again. If science has proven that nothing is certain, then even science itself is purely belief. What do you belive in?

This is the 7th, and final, day of Kwanzaa. Today we celebrate IMANI (Faith). Today we renew our BELIEF in God, our people, our teachers and our leaders, and the virtue and victory of our struggle IMANI!