Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Bernice King on Rosa Parks

I happened to catch a few minutes of Rosa Parks’ funeral the other day. The following was said by Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King and a minister herself. This really stood out to me (I’ve bolded my favorite parts).

There's something that we must correct the record on, for I know indeed that the facts indicate that Rosa Louise Parks died on October 24th, 2005. But let the record really reflect that the truth is that prior to December 1st, 2005, she died, for indeed she was crucified with Christ, and it was no longer her that was sitting in that seat, but it was the Christ in her that was sitting in that seat. The reason she responded with poise and dignity against the insults and threats of the bus driver was not because she was small in stature, but because she was already dead. But also let the record reflect that I know the facts state that she refused to give up her seat. Well, I began to search the word of God. And I remember reading somewhere in the word of God that clarified for me that although that was the fact, that she refused to give up her seat, the truth is, according to Ephesians two and six, the reason she couldn't give up her seat is because she was already seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus far above principalities, dominions and powers. And so that's why she could not give up her seat.

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/02/se.01.html

Find new music you already like

While procrastinating, I came across www.pandora.com.  I think that site is going to help me procrastinate a whole lot more…

Sunday, November 06, 2005

An experiment

I’m going to try out the Blogger for Word feature I just installed.  It looks like it might be pretty useful.

The name says it all

Yep, I have a master's in English and I'm a second year medical student. Which means my posts should be well written but will probably come irregularly.