Four little girls

Do the names Addie Mae, Cynthia, Carole and Denise mean anything to you?

Addie Mae, age 14 is a budding artist.
Cynthia, age 14 loves Math.
Carole age 14 is a straight A student.
Denise age 11, a friend of Condoleezza Rice has a flair for the stage and loves to read poetry.

They all have at least three things in common...
1. They all love Jesus and going to Sunday School at their local church together.
2. They were all in the restroom together in the basement of their church getting ready for a church assembly when a bomb went off blowing up the church courtesy of the Ku Klux Klan fifty years ago yesterday.
3. Their young, innocent, precious, and lifeless bodies were found in the rubble.

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama a half a century ago on the heels of the "I have a Dream" speech just 18 days earlier would awaken America's slumbering conscience and prove to be a galvanizing point in the Civil Rights movement.

Do you remember what it was like to be 15 years old?
Addie Mae, Cynthia, Carole and Denise never lived long enough to know.
They were just four little girls...

My iWitness...

Do you know what the Sunday School lesson was for that day on September 15, 1963?

"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you..."

Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Denise McNair

In your honor, in your remembrance...
May we live out the Sunday School lesson you never had a chance to...

It's amazing to me how much the world changed after that day...
All because of "Four little girls..."

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!