Good evening, Family!❄️
Praying you are all safe and warm. 🧤🧣
This week, we praise God for:
💟 Carole's family experiencing miracles! Both Racheal and Michael Christopher are doing better from Covid! Racheal tested negative and Michael opened his eyes! May the Lord keep working in their lives.
💟 Bianca and Vishal are grateful for all that the Lord has helped them to get done before their first baby's arrival in early March. Please keep praying for continued protection for Bianca and baby, and for a safe and healthy delivery. 🍼
💟Sue's mom, Olga, and get brother, Frank, have recovered from Covid and are getting stronger every day!
💟Angelica is grateful for the new opportunities to help others. May God keep granting her open doors!
We are also praying for:
🛐Vasthi's coworker, Maria, who had back surgery and is need of healing and a full recovery.
🛐Samson, the Lozano Family's youngest dog as he undergoes diagnostic testing. Praying for good results!
🛐 Monkey. He is showing signs on some improvement, but we are all still very limited because of pain.🐾🐾
🛐 Peter's dad's nephew, who passed away from Covid. Please keep the family in your prayers. Peter encouraged us all to remember the guidelines for our safety and the safety of others.
🛐 All those who are battling Covid at this moment, including Angélica's friend, Michelle. May God grant them healing.
🛐Seth's teacher, Mrs. Muñoz and her baby girls, who were born prematurely and are in the NICU. May God bless and protect those precious babies and the Muñoz family as they navigate this difficult journey.
🛐 Anna Ortiz, who was in cancer remission, but the cancer has returned with a vengeance and is now in her bones. Please pray for her during this process. Pray for her family as well!
Today's Devotional is being shared by Xavier, especially for the start of Black History Month. Xavier would also like to encourage everyone to trace their family histories to see just how much we owe to our black brothers and sisters and their struggle to make dreams, and even life, more enriched because of the struggles they were willing to endure for those who would come after. 🤍 Thank you Xavier, for this extraordinary reminder. It inspires me to want to STAND UP for those who will come after...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and got aboard the Cleveland Avenue bus to get home from work that night. She worked at a department store as a seamstress, and she was thankful when she finally got to rest her legs in her seat.
At that time, the municipal law stated that Blacks and Whites were segregated in just about every aspect of their everyday lives. Even on buses, there were “colored sections” where non-White people were allowed to sit. However, when the “White section” filled up, people sitting in the “colored section” were expected to give up their seats to the whites needing a seat.
On this particular night, some white people boarded the bus after Rosa Parks so the bus driver, James Blake, ordered the four people seated in the “colored section” to get up from the seats they were already sitting in. Three of the colored people stood up, but Rosa Parks did not. Instead, she moved over inwards to the window seat.
When the bus driver asked her why she did not stand, she calmly replied, “I don’t think I should have to.”
“Are you going to stand up?” he asked her again.
“No,” she replied.
“If you don’t, I’ll call the police and have you
arrested,” he said.
“You may do that,” she replied.
The police were called, and Rosa Parks was arrested. Without realizing it, she also started a social revolution.
Many years later, Mrs. Parks had this to say about that night: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in to injustice.”
Imagine what would happen if all of us got tired of giving in to, or turning a blind eye, to injustuce. ✊🏽