Sunday, March 25, 2018

The March in Albuquerque

Streets in Old Town Albuquerque were swarming on Saturday, March 24, 2018.

Not swarming with bees, not swarming with tourists (although I imagine there were a few), but swarming with thousands of folks who wanted to express anger at the inaction concerning safety of our schools, and the proliferation of people with assault rifles.

Here are a few photos.






 


And, in regard to that last photo...this today:

Pope Francis is telling young people to keep on shouting and not let people silence them.
“The temptation to silence young people has always existed,” the pope said during a Palm Sunday service in St. Peter’s Square, according to Reuters.
He said there are many ways to silence young people and "make them invisible."
"Many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive," he said, the news service reported.
“Dear young people, you have it in you to shout," he continued.


“It is up to you not to keep quiet. Even if others keep quiet, if we older people and leaders, some corrupt, keep quiet, if the whole world keeps quiet and loses its joy, I ask you: Will you cry out?”

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Sign of the Times

Seems like there are more and more of these.  SAD!


Saturday, March 3, 2018

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Billy Graham in Albuquerque

The year was 1975.

The location was University Arena - The Pit.

The occasion - conduct a TV interview with one of the most famous people in the world.

The camera was set up in one of the rooms that would normally be used by a basketball team.  This day, it was a "ready room" for Billy Graham - who had brought his crusade to Albuquerque.

We waited for a short period of time, then the door opened and in walked the familiar face, and his wife Ruth.

We shook hands and looked eyeball to eyeball, his piercing eyes burned to the back of my brain.

Something happened in that room when he entered - it was something that was felt but not seen or heard.

To this day, I say, the preacher Billy Graham carried with him someone - something - some higher power.

I know not what - but it was something.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Friday, February 16, 2018