Witnessing to the
light, to the love of God
the coming of the
Christ,
the coming of each
new day
witnessing to that
which we know, to what we see
sharing our faith,
our love, our testimony,
grounded in that
which we experience, what we believe,
in the life we
have lived,
in that which we
have shared
This day,
thinking, praying, hoping for that day
a day that he
preached of, dreamed of,
knowing, at least
in part, some of what yet must be done
of the minds, the
hearts, the laws, the beliefs
that must be
changed, to stand up and witness, to testify
to go into the
breach, in the gap, to stand for justice
to follow the
example of our brother
to follow the lead
of our Savior, showing love
Even to those,
while He was yet on the cross
to show mercy,
compassion, forgiveness
to call to God for
his grace
even to those who
nailed him to a cross
to stand for him
that only saw the mountaintop
to pray for the
ones leading the people
into the promised
land, to walk with our brothers,
our sisters, our
neighbors, to share all of their days
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
watching his “I have a dream” speech with my family;
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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