WE WORK WITH HIM TO MAKE RIGHT OUR WORLD

All the good that we could ever need we already have. In the midst of this presidential election season, it is important that I remind me of that...repeatedly.

I awoke this morning feeling apprehensive about the massive amounts of money that are now legally and freely given in order to get a person elected. What I'm agog over is the promise of one man to donate one hundred million dollars and the promise of another two men to give four hundred million dollars to elect the man of their choice to be president of the United States.

That is five hundred million dollars that could be going to help the poor, feed the hungry, tend to the hurt and homeless.

I said my "Thank You," and almost immediately I recalled when I was in high school in 1955, specifically, the Montgomery, AL, bus boycott. I'm from a fairly small town in Ohio, and there wasn't a lot I heard about it until it had been going on for awhile. What I heard was the "grownups" talking over their game of Canasta at our house on a Saturday night. Just bits of conversation...like, "What do they think they're doing? They'll never win." And "You can't fight City Hall...you'd think they'd know that by now."

I started reading, and learned that "Poor people braved the elements and the ire of their white bosses by walking to work. Affluent blacks pitched in by giving rides to those in need. Eventually, the black community created a virtual transportation company of its own that operated with an effectiveness that even its enemies grudgingly conceded." ("From Small Beginnings: the  Montgomery Bus Boycott," Randall  Kennedy.)

When I heard back then that local police had starting arresting blacks for violating a state law prohibiting consumer boycotts, I felt incensed...that, by any standard, was not right. I was elated when the people, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., took their case to federal court and won.

I go back to that case in my mind when the overwhelming odds are against me or not in favor of my choice...me, after my retirement, being elected to my office's Hall of Honor, Pete Sampras winning his final U.S. Open, President Obama winning election. I remember how nobody much gave the poor people a snowball's chance...but they came together in nonviolent resistance and won. If they'd come together in violent resistance, they'd probably all still be in jail.

So, a dollar or an unlimited amount of dollars...money has never been the winner in the end. All that's good, that's right, that's true and bright we already have. This then, is where one person with God is a majority. This is where we let the good flow from us...the Father within flows forth, and we work with Him to make right our world.

Thank You.