holocaust

it seems fitting that i spent the bus ride to and from washington d.c. today reading a book on the Blues. we went to tour the museum of the holocaust, to gain an understanding of the horrid things that took place to people not so different from me. in the pictures of their lives before they were condemned they looked just like normal decent people, and for no legitamate reason the Jews and other ‘fringe’ members of society were eradicated. i got the blues today, not from reading about its history among african americans, but from the visuals i will carry in my soul of those lost lives. the cost is overwhelming. there is no reason but Sin for the holocaust. there is every reason humanity should have done that, and yet every reason why we shouldn’t have. the Jews and Gypsies, the mentally ill, the “half-breeds”, the impure members of society are people like you and i know and work with, and we must ask ourselves, why wouldn’t we have done what the NAZI regime did? what makes us better? what would have kept me from inaction as a civilian smelling the odors of the cremated victoms of the death camps? i am as evil by nature and any body. praise Jesus that i am delivered from that, and yet i must remember that i am(was) capable of acts of pure intolerant evil.

i got the blues today

seeing those lives wiped away

i got the blues today

and i will never be the same

RRG