Echoes of the Desert – v3

In these days, these times of transition

this time of transforming, hope in the air

echoes of the years, the trials, the anguish

the years in the desert, wandering, struggling,

a people adrift, lost in the between times

between their slavery and the promised lands

The days of Moses, the days in the desert,

wondering now if they are ending, for another people

another people lost, wandering, out of slavery,

into a long desert, wondering when, after decades,

when the promised land would come

when they would find peace, a land for them

May these be the days long prayed for

when the people can cross over

when the past can be cast off, forgotten,

and they may drink of milk and honey

when they may walk into a new day

to feel a new life of freedom

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edited April 8, 2014

Echoes of the Desert – v3

(editing original again)

January 21, 2013

Echoes of the Desert – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/echoes-of-desert-v2.html

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

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

January 18, 2009

Echoes of the Desert

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/echoes-of-desert.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

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,

see http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/15/cornyn-holder-waterboard/

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