Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I needed to go into a part of town today that I seldom travel in (FYI, summer Avenue near I-240, in case you were wondering, Griz) on a mission to get a medication that my wife needed, that I could not get at my usual pharmacy.
It was Saturday, not long before noon, when I saw something that really gladdened my heart:
It was a children’s carnival, being held by a church called the “Believers Church”.
Now, I have no idea what the Believers church actually believes, religiously speaking.
But what I saw was a group of - oh, maybe 300 to 500 people - roughly 50% black and 50% white - all comingling together. Laughing, sharing food and drink. Watcing kids play on all the different rides and things.
It wasn’t like you had groups of whites hanging around together in some places and groups of blacks someplace else.
No. in the middle of MemAfrica, you had families - black and white - out on a Saturday morning, enjoying life.
Together.
if I had not been on a missionto get my wife her hard to find medicine, I would have stopped to meet a few of these folks. Maybe buy a snack at one of th food trucks, as a way to use my dollars to vote in favor of the inter racial harmony I saw there.
Maybe there is a small glimmer of hope. Even in MemAfrica (Memphis, TN).
It was Saturday, not long before noon, when I saw something that really gladdened my heart:
It was a children’s carnival, being held by a church called the “Believers Church”.
Now, I have no idea what the Believers church actually believes, religiously speaking.
But what I saw was a group of - oh, maybe 300 to 500 people - roughly 50% black and 50% white - all comingling together. Laughing, sharing food and drink. Watcing kids play on all the different rides and things.
It wasn’t like you had groups of whites hanging around together in some places and groups of blacks someplace else.
No. in the middle of MemAfrica, you had families - black and white - out on a Saturday morning, enjoying life.
Together.
if I had not been on a missionto get my wife her hard to find medicine, I would have stopped to meet a few of these folks. Maybe buy a snack at one of th food trucks, as a way to use my dollars to vote in favor of the inter racial harmony I saw there.
Maybe there is a small glimmer of hope. Even in MemAfrica (Memphis, TN).