Blue Truck, Red State: Out of the Past

Friday, December 6, 2024

Out of the Past

Some time ago, looking up an historical subject, I came across this photograph of a newlywed couple in Czechoslovakia, circa 1935. A nice young couple, neatly dressed, peering into the future. What did the future hold for them, I wonder.

They would have had only a short time to settle into married life before Hitler took over their country and plunged the world into war. Did they have children? Did he go off to war or to forced labor? Did they live to see the liberation of their country, and subsequent domination by Russia? What happened to them, after that short space of peace?

What will happen to all of us now, in America? What would they say to us if they could speak? I wonder . . .

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Prayer for Peace

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.

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.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu