Progress compels us

progress compels us

we are to act

not to get it perfect

but to try our best

when we see injustice

when our neighbors are left behind

to stand in the breach with them

to go where we are called

progress compels us

we are to act

not to get it perfect

but to try our best

Edited January 22, 2013

“Progress compels us”

Edited January 22, 2013

“knock holes in the darkness”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/knock-holes-in-darkness.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“A Common Vision”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-common-vision.html

sermon by Adam Hamilton

https://twitter.com/RevAdamHamilton

http://www.unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/01/adam-hamiltons-sermon-at-todays-national-prayer-service/

at Inaugural Prayer Service (beginning at about 1:16:45)

http://www.c-span.org/Events/President-Obama-Attends-Inaugural-Prayer-Service/10737437391-1/

and NPR story he references:

Rev. Kyles Remembers Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122670935

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/PresPrayer20130122.shtml#.UP7F0B3BdCY

“together we strive”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/together-we-strive.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“freedom for all, happiness for the many”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/freedom-for-all-happiness-for-many.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“by the lash and the sword”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/by-lash-and-sword.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“Our Creed a Lie”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-creed-lie.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“Endowed by the Creator”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/endowed-by-creator.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem, “Equal in our eyes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/equal-in-our-eyes.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “All should be equal”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/all-should-be-equal.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “Unfinished Work”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/unfinished-work.html

January 21, 2013

“Work still to do”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/work-still-to-do.html

January 21, 2013

“Our journey is not complete”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-journey-is-not-complete.html

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

&

quote in the speech, “"Our journey is not complete until our

gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law"”

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/293404632171048962/photo/1

&

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

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