Glad we are speaking
speaking out in public
for the people now
sharing their anguish
the atrocities of the
tyrants
Yet we were too long silent
comfortable as a nation
addicted to oil, to our
freedom,
to lean on the strongmen
in false security
Even our enemies
serving a purpose
the devil we knew
no matter how violent
rather than the unknown
Yet we need to speak
not stand complicit
to stand with the people
crying with them
for their liberty
Edited August 7, 2013
“Too Long Silent –v 2”
February 19, 2011
“Too Long Silent”
on the transformations since the beginning of January -
all the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia,
Algeria, Libya,
Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, etc.
and
especially the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February 11, 2011
&
and the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February 18, 2011
&
hearing claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in a news conference that when history books tell it
we will be seen as being on the right side of history
in how the United States responded
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“Our Revolution was like Wikipedia”
February 14, 2011
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“This
is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.”
February 13, 2011
and see
A Prayer for the People of Egypt (February
3, 2011)
by Safiyah Fosua
&
Matthew
5:13-20 (NRSV)
(and
Matthew 5:1-12, Beatitudes)
John
6:51 (Call to Worship)
Isaiah
58.6-12 (NRSV)
John
13:34-35 and Ephesians 4:4-6
Micah
6:8
Call
to Worship (John 6:51)
Worship
Theme: “A Meal for All People”
and
sermon, “Salty
Christians”
by
Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
February
6, 2011
Fifth
Sunday after Epiphany
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