Apartheid Museum

This afternoon Randi took us to the Apartheid museum in Johannesburg. Apartheid is the Africaner word for separation, and it refers to the period from 1948-1990 when a white, Africans minority ruled the country and oppressed the African natives. It was in many was similar to our Segregation in the U.S., except more violence and more hatred and more upheval. The museum was truly incredible. What stood out to me the most was the unbelievable capacity of people for cruelty, violence, and hatred on the one hand and the equally incredible capacity of people for forgiveness, resilience, peace, and determination.

We are who we choose to be in many ways. In small ways, every choice we make can promote justice, peace, forgiveness and hope or dehumanization, hatred, violence, and injustice. We choose every day.

Quote from some jet lag reading:
"And to expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence." A.W. Tozer.

That we would first see what is True, and then do something about it.