Before Martin – v2

Our pastor, setting the stage,

these days, these events, our times

into their context, framing our thoughts

back to the source, the beginning

Christ’s radical words,

changing our world

Explaining our hopes

in the radical words

the transforming power

the profound truths

in the teachings of Christ

On that mountainside,

in the words he shared,

setting the world right side up,

changing the rules, the order,

the human-made way of things

Seeing the world, humankind,

all of the world

as God sees the world,

all equal, all worthy

all loved by the creator, all

Loving our enemies,

seeing the good in them,

their humanity, just as our own

treating our enemies, our neighbors

as we would wish to be

Finding ourselves

in those who would hate us

finding God, the kernel of the divine

within each beating heart;

finding forgiveness,

as only Christ could forgive

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January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

Invocation

by Myrlie Evers-Williams

http://bcove.me/ugv9l9qy

Inaugural Address

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-barack-obamas-2013-inaugural-address-full-text-86497.html

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the inauguration of Barack Obama

as President of the United States of America

January 18, 2009

the message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”

on the sign in front of church,

the story of Moses and Joshua,

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Joshua 1:1-9

along with

Micah 4:1-4

Matthew 5:43-48

the sermon, “Love Your Who???”,

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

Suncook United Methodist Church, 

Suncook, NH,

and the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for Attorney General,

by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of waterboarding,

January 15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings,

see http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/15/cornyn-holder-waterboard/

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