A History-Changing Also-Ran

She was a seamstress in a department store in a southern town. At 42, she was like thousands of women in the mid 1950's; working menial labor to get by. She wasn't likely to garner much attention either on the job, in the business streets of her city on in the neighborhood. Not renowned for anything of which I'm aware, she was, by all accounts, an "also-ran" in life.

Until December 1 of 1955...Reflective of her existence, and joining with others who examined what was and what could be, this lady decided that enough was enough. Expected to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, as she had been thousands of times before, Rosa Parks refused to do so. And the rest is history.

Much of the history of God's love and justice is not written by those in power. It is forged in the courage of the "also-rans."

Just finished two great days of kayaking. I'll see you around the next bend in the river.