Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Time Is Tight

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Sunday Drive: Time Is Tight

From 1969 . . . 55 years ago . . . end of school . . . childhood's end . . . no longer a boy . . . not quite a man . . . Where would I go? What would I do? Who would I be? No answers then . . . only the sound of happiness . . . a long road ahead . . . hopeward bound.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: I've heard Booker T & MGs but not this tune. Kind of nice. It got a bit of the California beach vibe.; May 26, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Russ Manley said...: A big favorite of mine, I'm surprised you never heard it. This was a Top 40 hit in the South - they were a Memphis band - but I think there was some regional variation in radio play back then.; May 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM

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