For the past week I have been on personal retreat overlooking the Atlantic Ocean attempting to read and become inspired with sermon series and bible studies for the congregation that God has placed in my care. However, I have done very little writing and even less planning. All I do is watch the waters of the Atlantic and wonder if my ancestors who threw themselves overboard rather than allow themselves to be taken captive would have been considered “selfish” for their suicidal actions. And I cry…. And then I watch CNN (I can’t get MSNBC here, maybe that’s all the better for me right now….) And I turn to FB postings by those who remain vigilant. And those who know me, remember when I shared my thoughts at FB and spoke up and out at press conferences both in NYC and Washington DC about the injustices of Trayvon Marton, Nafisddsatou Diallo, a poor housekeeper who was assaulted by a very wealthy white man who headed up the most powerful financial organization in the world, and so many others…Ive stood bold, strong, unafraid, unhushed.....and now..... I cry…. So I change a FB header and post a pic or two (because that doesn’t require emotion or much of a brain)…..and I cry while I read postings by those who stand watch – Valerie Hugsy Bridgeman, Leslie D Callahan, Charles Coleman Jr., Raphael Warnock and others. I log onto Urban Cusp. And then I go back to my empty paper and my unopened books and I stare at the Atlantic Ocean and wonder if there is any drop of DNA from my ancestors.... any molecule, whatever the smallest particle known to science... is any left in that water which I see from my balcony. Or perhaps the spirits of my ancestors – yes their spirits remain present in that Atlantic Ocean that see --- That Ocean that people who do not look like me are fishing in while standing on rocks, as their children frolic in waters much too cool for this time of year. And I sit with not one bit of preparation for ministry. Unread books. Blank paper. Nothing and no one but me and the Atlantic Ocean as my Grown Teen goes about his business back in NYC….driving while black….and unarmed…. And I all I can do is cry… #ferguson #mikebrown #michaelbrown
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:36:54 +0000
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