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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sunday Drive: A Knock at Midnight
As we prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday on Monday, and the inauguration of our first black President on Tuesday, it seems more than fitting to reflect upon the long, long journey our African-American brothers and sisters have trod down through the centuries of American history, and the power of the faith that sustained them through the long, dark night of racial prejudice, discrimination, hatred, and violence.
If "gay is the new black," as the fashionable phrase now is, what is it that sustains us in our hearts and souls? What are we really all about? Just a good time? Or something more?
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
1 comment:
As I have said I pray that their will be guideness, strenth and wisdom. I do hope America can become the great nation she has been.
Ray
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