From our vantage,
our perspective,
our faith in God,
our belief
in the lessons of
Christ
His teachings to
love, not to hate,
to believe even in
struggle
to live as if we
believe,
even when we doubt
To strive for
heaven on earth
to be like John,
crying in the wilderness
to not claim to be
the light,
but to witness to
the light
to hold it high
and let God’s light shine
deep, cutting
through, into the darkness
On this day, I
share this note, this prayer
shining a bit of
light, into the remaining darkness
hoping, each beam,
each shaft,
loosening a bit of
the grip of life
the legacy of
division,
the remaining
parts of his dream
this day,
especially, mindful
Of the fact, we
may be the only Christ
some people see,
so we are called to be Christ
in all we do, to
be John, to be Martin
to follow the
master,
an urgent
challenge to us
and all who have
claimed his name
-----
January
21, 2013
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
&
&
several
poems written in 2009
on
the juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
the inauguration of Barack Obama
as
President of the United States of America
January 19, 2009
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and 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,
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