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Good morning.聽

A little saying I read recently stopped me short. I usually forget such things instantly; but this one stuck:聽'You are only as big as what makes you angry.'聽聽Ten short words that troubled me.聽

What does make me angry, I wondered? Poverty? Injustice? Well, no, not often. If I'm honest, what tends to get me angry is: queuing on the phone; traffic jams; apostrophes in the wrong place.聽

It's good to be reminded of the bigger picture. Sixty years ago today Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. It was a spark that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and set alight the civil rights movement in America.聽

Rosa Parks was angry with the daily injustices faced by her fellow African Americans.聽 When asked what had prompted her action on that day, she replied, 鈥淚 was tired of giving in.鈥澛�

Perhaps years of suffering with her community had enlarged her. When the bus driver waved his hand and ordered her out of her seat, she says, 鈥淚 felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.鈥澛�

That determination led to her arrest, to death threats, and to her losing her job: but she was not beaten.聽

If we're as big as the things that make us angry, Rosa Parks was a giant. Perhaps that giant is in all of us, if only we can allow ourselves to feel it stir.聽

So I pray: Lord, you have created us with a thirst for justice. Help us to get angry about the things that matter, and to let go of the things that don't. Widen our vision to see as you see; enlarge our hearts, to love as you love; until your Kingdom comes.聽

Amen.