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The Fishless Fishermen
Parable of the Fishless Fishermen
Issue Date: May/June 2000
Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves fishermen. And lo, there were many fish in the waters all around. In fact, the whole area was surrounded by streams and lakes filled with fish. And the fish were hungry.
Year after year these who called themselves fishermen met in meetings and talked about their call to fish, the abundance of fish, and how they might go about fishing.
Continually they searched for new an… Continue
Issue Date: May/June 2000
Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves fishermen. And lo, there were many fish in the waters all around. In fact, the whole area was surrounded by streams and lakes filled with fish. And the fish were hungry.
Year after year these who called themselves fishermen met in meetings and talked about their call to fish, the abundance of fish, and how they might go about fishing.
Continually they searched for new an… Continue
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When the event was over and we were going toward our cars, people were being diverted and separated. Guided in other directions. We couldn't find our children, my Mom and sister had disappeared.
However, there was no sense of panic. Finally my brother and I were separated, there was a African American man with a police button directing us/a group of people in a certain direction onto a bus. Everyone was African American.
When we finally arrived at our destination, a elderly woman with white hair came out and started to speak. She said she was gathering up all her people because there was work to be done. She said we had been playing and sleeping long enough.
She told us that we were free to leave if we wished otherwise she requested 20 hours of service prior to leaving.
The telephone woke me. But will it have to come to that for us to get together as a people. We are asleep. Are We Keepers of the Dream that one day All men will be free.
We are mothers and daughters of antiquity past. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King and Dorthy Heights and many more were dream keepers. Now that we are free we have a responsibility to turn around and help free somebody.
If its only one somebody. African Americans need to unite for Africa. (AAFA) And while we are doing that we need to keep the dream alive and in the face of our children and grandchildren here and our neighbors children. For we are one.
Don't keep the dream of freedom tucked away in a box, just waiting for another Sojourner Truth.
NO DREAM INDEED SHOULD BE KEPT BUT LIVED. Like the leaders of the Civil Rights movement, traded their own lives for ours. Lets trade a portion of our time and dollars for them.
Who was the woman in the dream, I don't know, maybe it was me, maybe it was you, maybe it was all of us taking responsibility before we have to answer to our Creator as to why and what we did and didn't do.
AFFA was given to me about 2 years ago. But that is the problem it has just remained a thought. But I no longer feel comfortable just having ideas and not giving birth them.
Idea's dreams and passion all come from another place. A place that is trying to lead us into God plan and purpose for our lives. Our inspirations are not ours to put under our pillow's and wait for the truth fairy to come and replace with something better.
This is all I have to say for now, but I will be back. And hope to hear from you.
Love Peace and Blessings, Vivian Gale