Radical Words – v2

Radical words, more than all the rest,

that sermon on the hill, the mount,

sharing with us, even to this moment,

words to transform human hearts,

to slip loose the bonds of hatred,

of division, of strife,

To answer persecution

with love, with forgiveness,

with compassion for each other

To walk as our brother walked

to humbly submit to oppression

not as an act of submission

but to show the love of our Creator

one world, one people, one hope

A faith strong enough to move mountains

a certainty of the works, the grace of our Father

to heal all that is broken

to bring us peace, to make us whole

A love for one another,

a prayer for love to take hold

in each heart and hamlet

across this troubled globe

to see our lives in each other

to see our hope in peace as one

To walk with our sister, our brother

to lift up, to help, to share the love of God;

We walk into this future, this time of change and joy

and pray that this is the moment for all to live in peace

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,

http://www.suncookumc.org

Suncook United Methodist Church

http://facebook.com/groups/136632035559

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suncook-United-Methodist-Church/102221356487965

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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