So today in my Government and Politics Class I met and heard George Taliaferro Speek. He is a man with quite a story. George Taliaferro Graduated from IU in 1949. He was the First Black Man Drafted by the NFL. It was so neat to hear him, and to talk with him. So often I think about the stories of life that are going on around me, wondering what their about, and who the main parts are of the story. Something that struck me, and I have been struck with this thought more than once. That through the difficulties of life he said that he was the most shaped, the most changed, that in those difficulties he became a stronger person. It reminded me that God uses the hard things of life to make me what he wants me to be.
Remember that song we used to sing when we were kids, the one we sang when we wanted to go frolic in the out doors but we didn't because it was raining. Rain rain go away come again some other day. Or the one about the old man, It's raining it's poring the old man is snoring, he got out of bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning. Why did we sing those songs, I mean what happen to the old man? I remember, a few times, during the summer when I was a kid my parents would let us play in the rain. This sounds strange I think, but I like the smell of wet pavement, and I used to lay on it face up eyes closed, every other sense awake. The side walk would be warm from the summer sun of the day, and the rain falling on me would be cool. I remember thinking this is so beautiful God. To know God, is to really experience life, in a vivid sort of way, to have every sense, AWAKE.
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