In March, March for a purpose and March on…
I have a political opinion but have never use my social media, email list or blogs to talk about anything political. I participate in the process but I have more to talk about than politics. I’m not going to start today so keep reading. Lol. But I recently participated in a vending event in Selma Alabama of the 59th Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee which is the commemoration of the March for Voting Rights culminating on March 7, 1965 which is now known as Bloody Sunday because protestors who walked more than 50 miles from Montgomery Alabama to Selma to face being beaten crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge into town. I’ve known about this incident but didn’t really fully connect with it because I’m not from Alabama. I was born and raised in Kentucky. When we exited the major highway of Interstate 65 to the State highway of 80 West, I felt it. I knew I was on historical grounds. It was no longer just on Google or in the memories of the older generation of Alabama because so much is being left out of the history books but it was now in my eyes, ears and nose. We were on highway 80 West in a car but through my mind’s eye I saw feet, marching, walking, tired, hungry definitely, having to use the bathroom outside on the side of the road, weak, maybe scared with a horrific expectation ahead but still moving, marching for a purpose and forward. They had been warned by the Sheriff there to not cross the bridge but they did anyway. At the commemoration, they actually had people there who were still alive who marched that day and spoke about how the Marching, Moving and Movement must go on for the next generation to understand and continue to fight. They marched for something that I have to often remind myself to do every election which is to go to the polls. No matter if it is a Presidential, local or primary election, I vote. Since being married to Brian Royston, I vote now more than ever.
It’s March. Not a time for madness but mindfulness of our history, present and what God has for the future. Are you marching, moving and have a mindset for a purpose? March on…
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Julia
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