 |
| Captain Ernie |
 |
| Mr. Rogers |
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity.
Dr. Martin Luther King
 |
| Captain Kangaroo. |
As I sit at my home office desk on this Monday Martin Luther King National Holiday, and as I drink coffee while eating Chicken in a Biskit Crackers with my K9 son "Tuffy". As I attempt to write down what my brain was thinking about at 1:30 AM this morning, one cannot in any semblance listen to Reverend Doctor King speeches and not think of those that had important roles in your learning, growing, and doing.
As a small child strong male influences became my friends and my teachers, while my siblings were at school an dad was at work and mom was at work in the home. Each one of these male figures such as Captain Kangaroo in the morning, Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood in the mid-day and finally Captain Ernie's Showboat in the late afternoon, taught me about life and how to treat others with respect.
Each one of these figures seemed to touch all aspects of childhood in their shows, and each one of them treated everyone equally as different cultures and ethnicity touched their viewership and audience. People and cultures that seemed beyond my reach, leaped out of my television screen. These male figures expressed love and teaching not as television hosts, but as television friends and role models.
The text from St. Paul's letter to Titus is considered along with the letters to Timothy to be some of his last correspondences. In his letter to Titus we see him telling Titus to be an instructor to all and that he was to be an example to all in ways of living and peacefulness. Titus was to be an example of kindness, sincerity and ethical ways of living.
Doctor King was this kind of man, he lived, preached, and even died teaching that all of God's children should be equal, because they were equal in the eyes of our Heavenly Father. I refer to Dr. King as our Twentieth Century Moses, as he referred to leading people to the promised land of equal opportunity and equal status. Doctor King had a feeling that he would be like Moses and not enter the promised land with his people, but watch them enter it from the mountaintop. This feeling that Dr. King came true, as he was assassinated shortly after giving his final speech.
Where are the strong men of this Twenty-First Century? Where are the Dr. King's, Where are the Captain Kangaroo's, Mr. Rodgers, and WOC's Captain Ernie? Where are today's Titus's? Where are the men of today that will stand up for injustice, where are the men that treat all equally? Is this a rant about remembering my childhood? I surely hope that instead it is the Holy Spirit nudge to write about those that taught fairness and justice for all, and those that need to stand up and teach these things to today's children.
Dr. King Had a Dream! Who will teach the children of today that this dream is still within our reach and it is truly what God expects of those that He created.
This is the Day the Lord has Made. Pastor Tim.
As a small child strong male influences became my friends and my teachers, while my siblings were at school an dad was at work and mom was at work in the home. Each one of these male figures such as Captain Kangaroo in the morning, Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood in the mid-day and finally Captain Ernie's Showboat in the late afternoon, taught me about life and how to treat others with respect.
Each one of these figures seemed to touch all aspects of childhood in their shows, and each one of them treated everyone equally as different cultures and ethnicity touched their viewership and audience. People and cultures that seemed beyond my reach, leaped out of my television screen. These male figures expressed love and teaching not as television hosts, but as television friends and role models.
The text from St. Paul's letter to Titus is considered along with the letters to Timothy to be some of his last correspondences. In his letter to Titus we see him telling Titus to be an instructor to all and that he was to be an example to all in ways of living and peacefulness. Titus was to be an example of kindness, sincerity and ethical ways of living.
Doctor King was this kind of man, he lived, preached, and even died teaching that all of God's children should be equal, because they were equal in the eyes of our Heavenly Father. I refer to Dr. King as our Twentieth Century Moses, as he referred to leading people to the promised land of equal opportunity and equal status. Doctor King had a feeling that he would be like Moses and not enter the promised land with his people, but watch them enter it from the mountaintop. This feeling that Dr. King came true, as he was assassinated shortly after giving his final speech.
Where are the strong men of this Twenty-First Century? Where are the Dr. King's, Where are the Captain Kangaroo's, Mr. Rodgers, and WOC's Captain Ernie? Where are today's Titus's? Where are the men of today that will stand up for injustice, where are the men that treat all equally? Is this a rant about remembering my childhood? I surely hope that instead it is the Holy Spirit nudge to write about those that taught fairness and justice for all, and those that need to stand up and teach these things to today's children.
Dr. King Had a Dream! Who will teach the children of today that this dream is still within our reach and it is truly what God expects of those that He created.
This is the Day the Lord has Made. Pastor Tim.
