PREFERENCE

Preference is not necessarily a judgment against anything less preferred. I prefer chocolate ice cream over vanilla, but that is no indictment against vanilla. I enjoy vanilla as well. I prefer spring pink shrimp over white or brown, but I find no fault with white or brown. Both are delicious. I prefer a black suit to all others but that preference doesn't mean that I despise my gray suit.

Preference is a characteristic common to us all. So sad that preference is often mistaken for judgment; and, sadder still that prejudice often masquerades as preference.

ANCESTORS

July 4, 2020: a day in the American “Melting Pot” marked by sharp division according to color, culture, national origin, age, sex, religion, politics, hairstyles, and so on and on it seems without end. This should not be. 

If not for God there would be no earth, no America in the earth, nor would any of our Ancestors have ever lived here. If not for the lives of all our ancestors,

I AM

I can say, “I have been” and most will doubt that I ever was

I can say, “I will become” and most will place their bets that I never do

I can say, “I am” and most will attack my continuing to be

Thank God for those few who will forget what I was, encourage my reaching for all that I might become, and will help press me toward bettering all that I am

From Phil 3:13-14