My daughter, age 12, loves the movie, "Titanic." She's 
seen it now with her friends about 4 times. We were 
talking last week about Black History Month (we 
observed this in our worship service yesterday). 
Meredith, my daughter, mentioned how unfair she 
thought it was that on the Titanic there were 
places no one but first class passengers could 
go and how so many of the poorer persons were 
below deck, eventually losing their lives 
(even children). "But, Dad," she observed, 
"when it was sinking, they all realized they were 
on the same ship, didn't they?" 

"I guess so," I replied. 

"We're all on the same ship," she said to me, 
looking out the window as persons arrived for worship.

I asked her if she would like to preach today...

It made me think of something an African American 
pastor friend of mine said once in a sermon:

"You ancestors may have come over on the Mayflower 
and mine on slave ships, but we are on the same ship now."

Bass Mitchell
January 2001


And a little child shall lead them...