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Nine Years Later...

9/11/2010

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You said to love
All I see is hate
Emotions swirling ‘round
On this sacred date

What must You think
When I choose to hate
When I turn from You
To pursue my fate

When I choose to hurt
Instead of heal
When I choose the fake
Instead of the real

When I choose to look
At myself instead
When I starve my Lord
To make sure I’m fed

I look beyond
To the crimson cross
And Your eyes still shine 
With love spread across

On that cross so hard
In Your eyes the love
Yet I prefer the eagle
And pervert the dove

You said to love
All I see is hate
Lord give me your heart
On this sacred date




Copyright 2010 by Boyd Allen
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"I Have A Dream..."

8/29/2010

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Forty-seven years ago yesterday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the most famous speeches in American history.  I am ashamed to admit that--until tonight--I had never watched the speech in its entirety.  

If you're like me and you've never seen it, or if you've watched it many times...take a few minutes and allow the words of an American prophet to move you.
Word, Dr. King.  Word.
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