I am so humbled to have members like you on this forum. I read this article, and started to gather my thoughts--and I saw your reply. I thought of this:
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness
Philippians 2 4-7
God is the great equalizer, and He loves us all. It is hard, so very hard, for me to deal with the politics of the age sometimes. For I sometimes view the rhetoric of fools within the prism of my own reason, and then I ask God "What shall then I do?"
When I was in pilot training, a friend (a Black-- African-American) friend helped me. Without him, I would not have ever become a pilot. Last week, I went to lunch with men who honored this man, and I thought of my friend.
In dark days, I survived because of him. I don't know what that means when I say it. It sounds so hollow----so empty---almost as of I launched with the pre---
"Some of my best friends are......!!" Perhaps we are conditioned of doing so...and sometimes afraid of offending in the present climate of "diversity." But God sets the standards--doesn't He? It is to those that I aspire--but still--I find myself falling short----not of hatred or bigotry--but because I find that I cannot hurdle the objects that others put in my way.
Once--you and I mourned this man--an hero to me. A man of dignity, selflessness, courage.....it is to you that I hold a mirror to..and think as Christ would..."This is my brother, my sister, my mother."
Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.