Good message. Keep working hard and assume that most people have good intentions. It truly would be a wonderful thing if people from all sides could simply stop using skin color as an indicator of anything. Unfortunately responding in like kind is not ending anytime soon. Racial reconciliation can only occur with Christ in the center of it. Turn the other cheek and look for ways to move forward.
ChrispMay 8, 2018
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL . . . on so many levels! ! !
RonMay 8, 2018
I'm from Utah originally, but have lived in Georgia for 30+ years. I'm sometimes appalled by the lack of racial understanding of my friends and family in Utah. While we've had black members of the Church in our wards and branches for many years here in Georgia, they've been the decided minority. I've often thought what faith it would take to choose to be in the minority. I'm now serving in a YSA branch and love to see the strength that comes to use as more and more black and Hispanic young men and women are baptized. I would guess it won't be long before they're no longer the minority.
Southern convertMay 8, 2018
Good article - shows the challenges some members face due to circumstances. Author lives in a predominantly white LDS area.
We are blessed to live in a part of the USA where this is no big thing,
really. Plenty of members here that are black or bi-racial and no one thinks one smidgen about race and the Church. Good heavens, it's about your testimony and faith in the Gospel, period! Maybe we should all remember that. Regardless of where you live or what color you are - faith in the Lord is the critical factor that should unite us all.
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Green OregonMay 9, 2018
Good message. Keep working hard and assume that most people have good intentions. It truly would be a wonderful thing if people from all sides could simply stop using skin color as an indicator of anything. Unfortunately responding in like kind is not ending anytime soon. Racial reconciliation can only occur with Christ in the center of it. Turn the other cheek and look for ways to move forward.
ChrispMay 8, 2018
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL . . . on so many levels! ! !
RonMay 8, 2018
I'm from Utah originally, but have lived in Georgia for 30+ years. I'm sometimes appalled by the lack of racial understanding of my friends and family in Utah. While we've had black members of the Church in our wards and branches for many years here in Georgia, they've been the decided minority. I've often thought what faith it would take to choose to be in the minority. I'm now serving in a YSA branch and love to see the strength that comes to use as more and more black and Hispanic young men and women are baptized. I would guess it won't be long before they're no longer the minority.
Southern convertMay 8, 2018
Good article - shows the challenges some members face due to circumstances. Author lives in a predominantly white LDS area. We are blessed to live in a part of the USA where this is no big thing, really. Plenty of members here that are black or bi-racial and no one thinks one smidgen about race and the Church. Good heavens, it's about your testimony and faith in the Gospel, period! Maybe we should all remember that. Regardless of where you live or what color you are - faith in the Lord is the critical factor that should unite us all.
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