In listening to his final
words
words of awareness
of his place In the story
as leader of his people
The very words of Moses
knowing his fate before him
that he would not cross
that he would die where he
was
not in the Promised Land
Remembering Moses
echoing today, in the present
within us, in Washington
across this nation
As we honor one
and applaud another
the memory of a Moses
a Joshua before us
Standing resolute
in the breach, the
maelstrom,
ready for battle
to continue the dream
for much is left undone
So much sorrow, a divide
remaining,
the goals still the same
one nation, undivided
still far from our reach
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edited January 21, 2015
Remembering Moses – v2
(editing original again)
edited January 21, 2013
Remembering Moses
edited January 21, 2015
Black and White - 2 – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
A Reality – v4
(editing original again)
edited April 5, 2014
A Reality – v3
(editing original version)
edited January 20, 2015
His Daughters – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
The Consequence of Witness – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Standing to Speak – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Witnessing Like John – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
The Teachings of Jesus – v3
(editing version 1 again)
edited January 21, 2013
The Teachings of Jesus – v2
January 18, 2009
The Teachings of Jesus
edited January 20, 2015
Changing the World – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Power in His Words – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Fighting Evil – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Love Liberates – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
The Power of His Words – v3
edited January 20, 2015
Living Christ’s Words – v3
edited January 20, 2015
Not Words of Weakness – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Hatred – v3
(editing original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Radical Words – v3
(editing original again)
edited January
20, 2015
Understanding
this moment – v3
edited January
20, 2015
Forty Years –
v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
Seeing Joshua
– v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
Choosing the
Cross – v3
(editing
original again)
edited January 20, 2015
Before Martin
– v3
edited January
20, 2015
Echoes of the
Desert – v4
(editing
version 1 again)
edited April
8, 2014
Echoes of the
Desert – v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
In His Ministry
– v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
The Question –
v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
Always Torture
– v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
The Hills of
Zion – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
Is He Joshua –
v3
(edited version
1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
Lofty Words –
v3
(editing
original again)
edited January
20, 2015
understanding
a moment – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
Words in
Quotes – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
Words that
Bind – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
edited January
20, 2015
Words chosen
for a nation – v3
(editing
version 1 again)
&
edited January 21, 2013
Black and White - 2 – v2
edited January 21, 2013
A Reality – v2
edited January 21, 2013
His Daughters – v2
edited January 21, 2013
The Consequence of Witness – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Standing to Speak – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Witnessing Like John – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Changing the World – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Power in His Words – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Fighting Evil – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Love Liberates – v2
edited January 21, 2013
The Power of His Words – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Living Christ’s Words – v2
edited January 21, 2013
Not Words of Weakness – v2
January 21, 2013
Hatred – v2
January 21, 2013
Radical Words – v2
edited January
21, 2013
Understanding
this moment – v2
January 21,
2013
Forty Years –
v2
January 21,
2013
Seeing Joshua
– v2
January 21,
2013
Choosing the
Cross – v2
January 21,
2013
Before Martin
– v2
January 21,
2013
Echoes of the
Desert – v2
January 21,
2013
In His
Ministry – v2
January 21,
2013
The Question –
v2
January 21,
2013
Always Torture
– v2
January 21,
2013
The Hills of
Zion – v2
January 21,
2013
Is He Joshua –
v2
January 21,
2013
Lofty Words –
v2
January 21, 2013
understanding a moment – v2
January 21, 2013
Words in Quotes – v2
January 21, 2013
Words that Bind – v2
January 21, 2013
Words chosen for a nation –
v2
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 17,
2009
understanding
a moment
January 17,
2009
Words in
Quotes
January 17,
2009
Words chosen
for a nation
January 17,
2009
Words that
Bind
and the
Presidential Oath, from the
US
Constitution, Article I, Section 1, Clause 8,
repeated
verbatim by the presidents. The only language in quotes
in the
Constitution, unlike the general principles elsewhere.
"I
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully
execute
the office of President of the United States,
and
will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend
the
Constitution of the United States."
January 18,
2009
Lofty Words
January 18,
2009
Is He Joshua
January 18,
2009
The Hills of
Zion
January 18,
2009
Always Torture
January 18,
2009
The Question
January 18,
2009
In His
Ministry
January 18,
2009
Echoes of the
Desert
January 18,
2009
Before Martin
January 18,
2009
Choosing the
Cross
January 18,
2009
Seeing Joshua
January 18,
2009
Forty Years
January 18,
2009
Understanding
this moment
January 18, 2009
Radical Words
January 18, 2009
Hatred
January 18, 2009
Not Words of Weakness
January 18, 2009
Living Christ’s Words
January 18, 2009
The Power of His Words
January 18, 2009
Love Liberates
January 18, 2009
Fighting Evil
January 18, 2009
Power in His Words
January 18, 2009
Changing the World
January 19, 2009
Witnessing Like John
January 19, 2009
Standing to Speak
January 19, 2009
The Consequence of Witness
January 19, 2009
His Daughters
January 19, 2009
A Reality
January 19, 2009
Black and White - 2
&
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,
&
edited January
19, 2015
Changing the
Wind – v3
(merging edits
to original and version 2)
Edited July
22, 2013
“changing the
wind – v2”
December 7, 2007
“changing the
wind”
Based on the comments of Jim
Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29,
2007
He was talking about whether to
change politicians
or change the wind, to change
the public opinion
which guides politics. He used
the example
of President Johnson’s
statement to the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting
rights bill but
it actually took 5 months to
pass the Voting Rights Act,
after the March in Selma.
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