Wednesday, October 24, 2108

                   _______________________Psalm 38:9_

O 

Lord, 

you know

all my 

desires, 

and my 

sighing  

is  not hidden from you.

Rosa Parks, born in 1913 and died on this day in 2005, “the Mother of the Freedom Movement” was  suddenly thrust into the limelight in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. The arrest sparked a boy-cott lead largely by black churches and the young minister Martin Luther King Junior who was himself assassinated in 1968.  Perseverance pays or as  gruff oldtimer once siad at a meeting,  "Time taks time." The strike lasted over a year, until the city repealed the segregation ordinance. (From Give Us This Day

We’ve come a long way, but the struggle for racial equality and equal civil rights is not over in America, but has actually rea-ched a new stage.  Persever-ence pays. Time still takes time.   Pray that we may all stand, or sit, or kneel  in support ofequal rights, human dignity anda renerwed commitment 
to non-violence.