God's process of building my life and this future and this purpose included some very strategic people. That was instilled in me, and so that helped me rise above it, because he rose above it. I couldn't deny it, it was all up in my face, but I couldn't limit myself to it, because God was so much bigger. Because of the spiritual influence that I had, I was never allowed to limit myself to the reality that I saw. My father always was reminding me, in one form or another, that I was the son of a King, that I was a King's kid, and that I was to define myself not by how other people thought about me, and sometimes not even how I thought about me, but what God said about me and how God related to me. Hurt, disappointed, and even angry, but not bitter, because my father would always remind me that even though it was unjust and even evil, I was never to lose sight that God was in control. But I also remember how my father's faith caused us not to become bitter. And then, of course, major riots broke out here in Baltimore and the National Guard was up in front of our home, and all along our street and in the neighborhood, to keep order during a very tense time in our nation. I was at a friend's house and saw it coming over the news, and saw the pain on the nation's face. I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. Tony Evans: As we entered into the mid ‘60s, there was a lot of racial tension in our nation and in Baltimore, Maryland.
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