Do not stare at me because I'm dark;
it's the sun that tanned me …
This phrase is lifted directly from the Songs of Solomon,
and may be found in vs. 1:6.
I have been amazed by the amount of scientific information and
basis for scientific theory that can be found in the Bible, and I believe that
as we study the Bible more and more, like George Washington Carver, the man who
supposedly spoke to flowers and invented more than 300 uses for peanuts, we
also can come to know the secrets of science and technology, and also partake
of the mysteries God’s creation as a whole, by our study of the word of God.
Recently we have been inundated by so many events that have
been so racially charged as t have caused a sharp rip in the fabric of our
society. First in the death of Trayvon Martin, and a most recent report of a
mother, who allegedly falsely accused two black teenage boys of shooting her
infant son, while, in fact, she was one who murdered her own son.
We have come through the ages of trade slavery, the age of
the KKK, the veiled and not so veiled racial discrimination that has been so
prevalent especially in the United States, which I am quick to say goes both
ways - black to white, and white to black and sometimes I daresay, even black
to darker or lighter black.
But here is my story:
