[Dialogue] The Inauguration

[RICHARD HOWIE]

The ENTIRE poem.  Superb!
Ellen
On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Janice Ulangca wrote:

> Obama's speaking to the world, and asking the U.S. to commit to  
> global responsibilities as well as care for our nation.
> Obama's seriousness - not going for big poetic flourishes - daring  
> to give us lots to think about.  The commentators had no one big  
> quote to celebrate, tho Obama is very capable of that.  If that was  
> a temptation for him, he resisted it.  What a great man!
>
> The benediction - quoting from Lift Every Voice and Sing - the  
> Negro National Anthem - verse 3:
> "God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
> Thou who has brought us thus far on the way,
> Thou who hast by thy might led us into the light,
> Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
> Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee,
> Lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee,
> Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand,
> True to our God, true to our native land."
>     Words by James Weldon Johnson, set to music by his brother.  In  
> UM Hymnal, many others.
> And I agree - the 3 Amens!
>
> It is wonderful to have this conversation.  Thanks, Jim, for  
> starting it.
>
> Janice Ulangca
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wiegel" <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
> To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>; "Colleague  
> Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>; "Springboard Dialogue"  
> <springboard at wedgeblade.net>; "Global ToPTrainers"  
> <globaltoptrainers at ica-topnet.org>; "US TopTrainers"  
> <ustoptrainers at ica-topnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:31 PM
> Subject: [Dialogue] The Inauguration
>
>
>> Words, phrases, images that struck you?
>>
>> the sea of red all across the mall
>> Rick Warren, "united by a quest for freedom and justice, (not by  
>> religion, race, blood)
>> the poem about building edifices and having to clean them
>>
>> you??
>>
>> Jim Wiegel
>>
>> The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the  
>> observer - often, indeed, to the decider himself (...) There will  
>> always be the dark and tangled stretches in the decision-making  
>> process - mysterious even to those who may be intimately  
>> involved.   John F. Kennedy
>>
>> 401 North Beverly Way
>> Tolleson, Arizona 85353-2401
>> +1  623-936-8671
>> +1  623-363-3277
>>   jfwiegel at yahoo.com
>>   www.partnersinparticipation.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dialogue mailing list
>> Dialogue at wedgeblade.net
>> http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dialogue mailing list
> Dialogue at wedgeblade.net
> http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net