A Common Vision – v2

Together we are stronger

together we strive forward,

a common vision for our nation

a single vision in our eyes.

We yearn for the promised land

a place where all are free,

equal in the eyes of God

from sea to shining sea.

Edited November 9, 2013

A Common Vision – v2

Edited January 22, 2013

A Common Vision

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-common-vision.html

sermon by Adam Hamilton

at Inaugural Prayer Service

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/PresPrayer20130122.shtml#.UP7F0B3BdCY

“together we strive”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/together-we-strive.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“freedom for all, happiness for the many”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/freedom-for-all-happiness-for-many.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“by the lash and the sword”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/by-lash-and-sword.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“Our Creed a Lie”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-creed-lie.html

Edited January 22, 2013

“Endowed by the Creator”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/endowed-by-creator.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem, “Equal in our eyes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/equal-in-our-eyes.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “All should be equal”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/all-should-be-equal.html

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “Unfinished Work”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/unfinished-work.html

January 21, 2013

“Work still to do”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/work-still-to-do.html

January 21, 2013

“Our journey is not complete”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-journey-is-not-complete.html

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

&

quote in the speech, “"Our journey is not complete until our

gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law"”

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/293404632171048962/photo/1

&

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

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