January 20, 2014
For or Against
An incident was reported in
the newspaper about Martin Luther King Jr. being arrested in the 1960’s. Both President
Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy, worked behind the scenes to help
garner Mr. King’s release. It’s interesting that King tried to minimize their
participation in his release from jail because, campaign-wise, he didn’t want
the Kennedys to benefit from his name recognition. I was reminded of the
disciples trying to stop a man from using the Lord’s name to drive out demons simply
because the man was not one of them. Jesus said, “Do not stop
him, for whoever is not against you is for you.” (Luke 9:50 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I don’t think there’s anything more simple or beautiful than truth - the exact match between a mental concept and the reality it conceives. Truth builds its knower into reality as a stone readied to bear a load, and correlates him with all its other knowers as mutual participants in certainty. The darkness of man’s existence is used to snuff truth’s light. But imagination does not snuff the existence of the man who is the truth. We move in Him, or we lie.
-----Dr. King was a great man. But he was a man. He lied as much as the rest of us. As much as the Kennedy’s, too. I would like to know who he would rather have had benefiting from his name recognition. But the fact that it was the Kennedy’s made the acknowledgment of their participation a truth, and the minimization of it, well, at least a little twist of the truth. Nice stuff upon which to build history, though it’s a lot better than the heaps of manure history has become. Then, in mankind’s usual style of turning every advantage towards the self, everything the good doctor said wore like lipstick, while the opposite of what he meant stuffed hearts. Anybody wanna play knock-out? Even small lies seed great oaks.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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