I recently wrote a sermon about Howard Thurman. I knew little about him before I began preparing for my talk, but, the more I learned, the more I realized that his words apply to us even more than to hs generation. He was ahead of his time in many ways. Did you know that he met Ghandhi and shared the concept of non-violence with Martin Luther King, Junior? That MLK carrried one of Thurman's books in his pocket or every one of his marches? And here's some words of wisdom for our electronically-infested life: "How good it is to center down! To sit quietly and see one's self pass by! The streets of our mind seethe with endless traffic; our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences, while something deep withn hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull."
Want to know more? I found the book, "What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk With Howard Thurman" by Lerita Coleman Brown to be quite inspirational.
