This
morning on my way to Meeting, I listened to an interview of Congressman John
Lewis, the only one of six leading organizers of the 1963 march on Washington
who is still alive. He said that his
lifelong campaign for civil rights was founded on his total commitment to
nonviolence, peace, and love. He did not
connect nonviolence, peace and love, or his commitment to them, to any
religion.
Today,
Easter, Quakers and other Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ
and His restoration to the presence, and living service, of God, His Father and
the One Jesus lived to serve.
Today
it is particularly appropriate for us to consider for Whom, or for what
principles, we are committed to be agents; how we show our commitment to that
service; and the degree to which that commitment is founded upon nonviolence,
peace, and love.
