My friend Eric and I went to Birmingham this weekend so he could take a certification test and I could catch up with a good friend and visit my brother and family. It was a wonderful, relaxing weekend. I was even able to take a nap on a Saturday afternoon.
Saturday evening we watched Hotel Rwanda. An excellent movie. It was a difficult movie to swallow that this is based on reality. I am amazed at how easily I allow myself to become complacent about racism here in the south. I continually struggle, not with being cruel or malicous towards those of another race, but with seeing them as equals. It is not an overt thing for if it was, I think it would be confronted and dealt with. No my struggle is usually below radar.
In listening to What's So Amazing About Grace by Yancey and reading Blue Like Jazz by Miller, I heard of repentace services or a repentance box, where the congregation repents of the harm that people did in the name of Christianity. Is my Christian walk hurting others? I pray it is not, but if it is, may I be forced to my knees in realization.
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