Friday, September 29, 2000
Friday, September 29, 2000
...choose this day whom you will serve, ...but as for me and my household, we will
serve the LORD."
She recalls seeing Martin Luther King, Jr. beaten up outside the city jail. He came out of jail in all
white clothes, she remembers, and about five or six white men began beating him. Something
clicked inside of Peggy Terry. Peggy was there with some other white people to watch the
turmoil. "I'm so thankful I went down there that day," she says, "because I might have gone all
my life just the way I was." At the jail she saw people beating up Dr. King who did not fight
back. "He didn't fight back, and didn't cuss like I would have done and he didn't say anything,"
Peggy recalls. "I was just turned upside down."
As she watched what was taking place she felt something stirring inside of her. At that moment
she realized that she had to do something. Before night came she too had been arrested and
found herself in jail. From that day on she joined the protests for racial justice. "I felt I was doing
something." Peggy says, "I believe that you act on your beliefs."
When God speaks, decisions must be made.
(Joshua 24:15
NRSV)
Peggy Terry was living in Montgomery, Alabama during the bus boycott of the 1960s. Viewing
the turmoil firsthand absolutely changed her life. "It didn't leave you in the same comfortable spot
you were in," she says. You had to be either for it or against it." She remembers seeing white
men picking up black women and throwing them into the buses.
Lord Jesus, show me the tough decisions I need to make. Amen.
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