The power of his words
echoing down through the ages
words transforming power, the order of things
giving when others take, forgiving,
where there is hate,
loving our enemies
Modeled on His example
His unblemished life,
teacher, healer, and servant,
sacrificial lamb, the Son of God
Words with power, because he lived them
showing us a way of life
unlike that which the world would laud
demonstrating the Father’s love
In the choice of ministry,
in the choice of sacrifice,
in the choice of the cross
Loving those who would persecute him
even in the moment of death
echoing still, in this moment in time
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January
21, 2013
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
Invocation
by
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Inaugural
Address
&
&
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 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,
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