Quilts and Questions!

Quilts!
So warm, made from scraps and fragments of cloth. Leftover memories in a frame of fabric.
Quilts!
So comfortable and safe, when sickly and tired, somehow there is a feeling of wholeness and help.
Quilts!
A covering of prayer and passion. Glee and giggles. Sleeping and snoring. Dreams and desires.
Questions!
Are you a blessing or a curse?
Questions!
Can you take back a word, after it has been spoken?
Questions!
Can you take back a day, after it has been lived?
Questions!
Do you know Jesus?
Does Jesus know you?
Quilts and Questions?

A Tribute to Dr. Martin L. King

He preached a theology of action and not just theory! He went to their universities and studied their philosophies.

He took them to school on the campus of decency and non- violence.

He used the rhetoric and poetry of slave owners (known as Founding Fathers) against their lifestyle of "hatred and in supposition".

He proclaimed justice through social action. He preached it, lived it, loved it.

He spoke against the war in Vietnam Nam! He marched against segregation in the South!

Read his words, "we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering". 

(Excerpt from a "Christmas Sermon on Peace" December 1967)

His words and passion mirror the words and passion of Jesus Christ who is the original theologian!

Dr. King was born in the heartland of the South! Atlanta, Georgia.

He was killed because he loved people!

Jesus Christ was born in the heartland of heaven in a stable.

He was killed because He loved sinners!

About My Father's Business

A composite testimony of the family members of preachers/pastors.

Even though this quote is a passage where Jesus as a child said to Mary and Joseph, there are times when it is used as an excuse for preachers/pastors to not be present in and at places that were personal and important to family members. 

"Why do I have to be exposed and an embarrassing illustration in the sermon? When do I get the microphone to tell what you did, said, or did not do and said?"

Living under public scrutiny is painful, crazy, and real. Church services, banquets, funerals, revival meetings, weddings, church meetings. Got to smile when you want to stay home and watch a movie or play a board game. 

What about the basketball game that I am playing in? 
Or, the science fair, the concert, or going to my prom? 
Why are you not in the pictures? (Didn't Jesus say "come apart and rest?")

The saying is 

"Preacher's kids are the worst ones!" 

"The preacher's wife thinks she is better than everyone!" 

What about just being regular, normal, human, (whatever that means) even when we have to be about the Father's business?

When Jesus as a child said this, it was a moment with His family, not a rude, and selfish reason of escape and denial!
About My Father's Business?