It never seems that this much time has passed, but looking at the dates, it has been a long time. And it gets that way with so many areas of our lives. Time goes bye. We don't really procrastinate, we just think that some other thing or things are more important. The pot boils, the fire dies, or the screensaver kicks in. We or our car run out of gas, or the tires go flat. The ink in the printer dries out or old friends pass on into that land without end. "It was just yesterday" we cry. Or our…
One Day Later!
The empty tomb. The scared Roman Soldiers. The anxious Disciples. All memories of yesterday – Easter morning! Yesterday was an indelible stamp on history. No one has been able to erase the death and resurrection that happened. Many have tried in many ways. Attempts have been made to distort history – to declare it hallucination or "something". But, they have not been able to erase it from history. Even attempts to destroy the manuscripts that recorded and reported what had happened – those too failed.[more] Many would rather believe what others have to say about Jesus or how he said…
Booker T
The cleanup has found many things that have just been laying around (some for years) waiting to have something done with or to them. One of the items was a clip full of calendar pages with quotations from Booker T. Washington and his "Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks". I won't bore you with a history of Booker, just a quick summary. Freed from slavery, he went on to become the founder of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Surprisingly, he literally built this college fast with a totally different approach. The top quote in the stack sort of stands out. "We very…