We Can Change

I well remember 'yesterday'. I am experiencing 'today'. I have great expectations and hopes for 'tomorrow', BECAUSE I HAVE LEARNED THAT WE CAN CHANGE. When as a child, my playmates and I watched the clouds turn grey and the sunlight go away, we played in the barn on the hay and plated the Maypole in the Month of May. When once upon a time in my home state, it seemed to me that hate poured down like rain, flooding the human landscape with pain. There was enough misery to drive weak ones insane, and no one gained. BUT I LEARNED THAT WE CAN CHANGE. When once upon a time I was ashamed to mention my home state by name; When I was reluctant to say where I was from; and I dreaded to utter the word 'Mississippi' upon my tongue. Fortunately, that was once upon a time. I moved away after high school when I was 17; 58 years ago. Since then there has been a changing of minds. I have much gratitude to God, and I hasten to add, I AM CLEARLY SEEING A CHANGE.