WAR ROOM

"War Room" is not a compartment in my mind but a movie with tiered seating at local theaters. Elnora and I went to see it on "our" day.

Otis Sanford's title of his recent Commercial Appeal article "Some Folks can Benefit From Seeing War Room" said it well. War Room, "a commercial film about repentance, forgiveness and devout Christianity speaks volumes about our deep desire for harmony and racial reconciliation at a time when both are sorely missing in our society." (O. Sanford) As the lights came up, Mr. Sanford spontaneously hugged total strangers sitting in front of him, & they hugged back----because as he stated, "it seemed the right thing to do."

Mr. Sanford hugged a stranger. I hugged Elnora---it seemed the right thing to do because regardless of our skin color, "we be family" as Ashley Bryan says.

War Room, a huggin' kind of movie for both family and strangers!