WRITEON FOR FEBRUARY 5, 2020
sister alies.
February is BLACK HISTORY MONTH. We recently celebrated Chinese Lunar New Year, and we will look to other celebrations as the months pass.
The SUPERBOWL is over. The “trial” is over. The State of the Union is over. The Iowa Caucus is over. The virus probably isn’t, sadness still fills Kobe’s friends and fans as well as all in that helicopter, and many concerns of our friends and neighbors still keep us helping one another no matter how other people act! In fact, I was recently rescued by Bro. Danny. TY again!
We are familiar with MLK’s ‘Free at Last’…perhaps you don’t know where it came from. The Spiritual from which he took those powerful words goes like this:
“Free at last, free at last, I thank God I’m free at last; Free at last, free at last, I thank God I’m free at last.” This is the refrain. Here are the verses:
1. “Way down yonder in the graveyard walk, I thank God I’m free at last, Me and my Jesus goin’ to meet and talk, I thank God I’m free at last. O
2. On a my knees when the light pass’d by, I thank God I’m free at last, Tho’t my soul would rise and fly, I thank God I’m free at last. O
3. Some of these mornings, bright and fair, I thank God I’m free at last, Goin’ meet King Jesus in the air, I thank God I’m free at last.”
Certainly the call to a heavenly place is important, but these folks in slavery are also interested in ‘being free’! The slavery for our day is modest against the legality of ‘being owned by a person’, but the disenfranchisement in voting, housing, and a pay gap continue the plantation mentality in some places and the ‘making it very difficult’ to achieve all constitutional promises. The freedom of all persons relies on everyone doing their part and on our moral responsibility to make sure that ‘all’ are indeed free.
BLESSINGS.
