I WAS BORN IN SOUTH WALES SEPTEMBER 11 - 1942.
MY PARENTS MOVED TO YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, WHEN I WAS 5, BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR FULL TIME WORK.
I WAS AS A TOT AMAZED BY ALL THE CREATED THINGS AROUND ME— I WAS AMAZED BY EVERYTHING! FROM THE LADY-BUG TO THE MASSIVE OAK TREES.
AT AGE 7 MY FATHER SENT ME TO A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL [SOME KNOW IT AS THE ANGLICAN CHURCH]. I DID NOT KNOW AT THE TIME HE HAD BEEN RAISED ANGLICAN.
THAT FIRST DAY, I WILL NEVER FORGET, STILL FRESH IN MY MIND.
THE LADY SCHOOL TEACHER GAVE US ALL A BOOK, TO KEEP. LATER I LEARNT IT WAS CALLED THE HOLY BIBLE.
SHE TOLD US TO OPEN TO THE FIRST PAGE.
SHE BEGAN TO READ— “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH……….”
O MY O MY— A LIGHT SWITCH WAS THROWN ON IN MY MIND, AND BAM—— LIGHT! I IMMEDIATELY KNEW THERE WAS A GOD; A BEING SO MIGHTY AND SO POWERFUL; HE WAS THE BEING THAT CREATED EVERYTHING I COULD SEE. MY, IT WAS SUCH A DELIGHT FOR ME TO FINALLY FIND OUT WHO MADE THIS WHOLE PLANET, AND SKIES, THE SEAS, AND THE UNIVERSE OF STARS.
I BELIEVED IN GOD FROM THAT DAY FORTH.
I ALSO BELIEVED THAT WHAT I WAS HOLDING WAS THE INSPIRED WORD OF TRUTH; THAT GOD WANTED US TO READ, TO STUDY, TO LIVE BY. I BELIEVED IT WAS NOTHING FOR HIM TO HAVE MEN WRITE HIS WORDS TO US—— TO LIVE BY, TO BE TAUGHT ABOUT HIM, AND WHY HE WAS DOING ALL THIS ON PLANET EARTH.
OVER THE NEXT 4 OR 5 YEARS I WAS ENGROSSED, OVERJOYED, TO LEARN MORE AND MORE ABOUT THIS GOD AND A PERSON NAMED JESUS CHRIST— HIS VERY SON, SENT HERE ON A SPECIAL MISSION TO CALL AND CHOOSE PEOPLE FOR HIS FAMILY. I HAD TO LEARN BY MEMORY, THE TEN COMMANDMENT AS IN EXODUS 20, NO SHORT VERSION, BUT ALL AS WRITTEN IN EXODUS 20 IN THE KJV BIBLE.
I WOULD LOOK AT THEM AND SAY, IF EVERYONE WAS OBEYING THEM, WHAT A GLORIOUS HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, JOYOUS, WORLD THIS WOULD BE.
EACH HALF HOUR OF THE SCHOOL DAY, THE FIRST HALF HOUR, WAS READING THE BIBLE — THE SECTIONS KIDS COULD UNDERSTAND, AND THE HEROS, AND THE NOT SO HEROIC ONES— THE GOOD GODLY PERSONS AND THE ONES NOT SO GODLY.
WE ALSO HAD TO MEMORIZE THE 1ST SPALM. THE 23 PSALM. NOW AND AGAIN THE ANGLICAN PRIEST WOULD COME BY AND QUIZ US. IT WAS OBVIOUSLY QUITE NOTICEABLE I TOOK ALL THIS VERY SERIOUSLY.
AS A KID GROWING UP WE HAD PEOPLE WORKING IN ENGLAND FROM PAKISTAN AND INDIA—— THEY WERE DRESSED DIFFERENT, AND HAD SKIN COLOR DIFFERENT FROM US CELTIC-ANGLO- SAXONS.
I WAS NOT BOTHERED WITH THIS AT ALL, FOR I KNEW GOD HAD CREATED THEM ALL. SOMETIME ON TV I WOULD SEE BLACK PEOPLE DOING VERY TALENTED ENTERTAINMENT.
AT AGE 5, I LISTENED OVER AND OVER TO MY DAD’S CARBON LPs OF THE “INK SPOTS”— I JUST LOVED THEIR SINGING, AND THE GUY WITH THE HIGH FALSETTO—— THEY WERE ALL BLACK— PHASED ME NOT AT ALL—— ALL COLORS MADE BY GOD— MY GOD IS A GOD OF WONDERFUL VARIETY.
IN HIGH SCHOOL WE LEARNT JUST ABOUT NOTHING OF USA HISTORY. A LITTLE CANADIAN HISTORY, BUT NOT IN ANY DEPTH.
IT WAS NOT UNTILL I CAME TO CANADA IN 1961 AT AGE 18, DID I BEGIN TO LEARN ABOUT THE DISGUSTING HISTORY OF THE USA; AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS, RACE HATE, AND THE BLACK HISTORY OF BLACKS KILLED, HUNG UP. THE KKK CLAN OF HATEFUL DEMONIC MEN.
THIS WAS HEARTBREAKING TO SEE AND HEAR ABOUT ALL THE RACE ISSUES OF THE USA. YES I DISCOVERED ENGLAND HAD HAD THIS ALSO, AT SOME POINT, FURTHER BACK IN TIME.
SO I LOVE THIS ONE SCENE IN THE MOVIE “42.”
I LOVE THIS SEEN OF WESTLEY BRANCH RICKEY [DODGERS] AND HERB [PHILADELPHIA] ON THE PHONE WITH EACH OTHER.
JACKIE ROBINSON HAS NOW MOVED UP TO PLAY FOR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS.
THEY ARE TO PLAY THE PHILADELPHIA TEAM.
PHILADELPHIA MEANS “BROTHERLY LOVE.”
NOT SO BROTHERLY IN THIS SCENE.
THE GENERAL MANAGER FROM PHILADELPHIA IS TALKING TO RICKEY [GENERAL MANAGER BROOKLYN DODGERS] ON THE PHONE AND SAYS, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO PLAY YOUR TEAM IF YOU BRING THAT BOY WITH YOU AND HE’S IN UNIFORM.”
RICKEY REPLIES, “WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR TEAM HERB IS YOUR DECISION. BUT MY TEAM IS GOING TO BE IN PHILADELPHIA TOMORROW, WITH ROBINSON. AND IF WE HAVE TO CLAIM THE GAME AS FORFEIT; THAT’S 9 TO 0.”
HERB, “….WHAT IS IT YOUR TRYING TO PROVE?”
RICKEY, “DO YOU THINK GOD LIKES BASEBALL HERB? “
HERB, “WHAT THE HELL THAT’S SUPPOSED TO MEAN ?”
“IT MEANS SOME DAY YOUR GOING TO MEET GOD. AND WHEN HE INQUIRES WHY YOU DIDN’T TAKE THE FIELD AGAINST ROBINSON; AT PHILADELPHIA, AND YOU ANSWER, BECAUSE HE WAS A NEGRO. IT MAY NOT BE A SUFFICIENT REPLY!!!”
……….
O I JUST LOVE THAT ANSWER— JUST LOVE IT!!!
ALL THAT WE DO AND SAY EACH DAY, SHOULD BE DONE WITH GOD IN VIEW!
Keith Hunt
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