John Lennon
A Poem Dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr by
There once was a heroic man,
a mighty maneuver of God's love and will,
a powerful King.....
Son, husband, and loving Father,
pining with passion, beyond hate and violence.....
a dream of great love took wing.
Empowered by God’s love and strength,
birthed a triumphant journey out of evil's bondage,
of heart, soul, and mind.
Led persecuted soul’s toward the light,
freedom’s the only path of victorious flight,
bold, empowered, Christ-like, …..meek and kind.
As Satan would and always will,
Raised his head, unleashed his fury, using others to destroy and deter,
Undermine God’s plan within that loving King’s dream.
In all that hate ultimately created,
Suffering, anger, frustration, loneliness, and pain,
An awesome legacy evolved, born to thrive,
despite hell's woe, .....from the heartbeat of a Godly team.
All men are created equal
All men have equal God-given rights,
Race is not a Christian pre-requisite
to respect, inclusion, and love; it's His plan.
God loved us to bless us with the choice of free will,
fruits of His Spirit or Satanic seed,
Every soul must strive to be like Jesus, not the Klan.
Forgive we must, plant by example
to love each other, as the King's dream, a King's plan,
one act of kindness, one word, one touch at a time,
walk hand in hand, work heart to heart.
C'mon everybody, why do we cultivate hate
when peace is to be had,
all you have to do for the dream and the plan to merge
is overcome.......do your part.
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Gina Ann Day © 2008
Poets retain copyright to their work; obtain a poet's permission before using a poem in any form.
"Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord..." Hebrews 12:14
“ Evil can be cast out, not by man alone nor by a dictatorial God who invades our lives, but when we open the door and invite God through Christ to enter.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
A King’s Dream
There once was a heroic man,
a mighty maneuver of God's love and will,
a powerful King.....
Son, husband, and loving Father,
pining with passion, beyond hate and violence.....
a dream of great love took wing.
Empowered by God’s love and strength,
birthed a triumphant journey out of evil's bondage,
of heart, soul, and mind.
Led persecuted soul’s toward the light,
freedom’s only path of victorious flight,
bold, empowered,Christ-like, …..meek and kind.
As Satan would and always will,
Raised his head, unleashed his fury, using others to destroy and deter,
Undermine God’s plan within that loving King’s dream.
In all that hate ultimately created,
Suffering, anger, frustration, loneliness, and pain,
An awesome legacy evolved, born to thrive,
despite hell's woe, .....from the heartbeat of a Godly team.
All men are created equal
All men have equal God given rights,
Race is not a Christian pre-requisite
to respect, inclusion, and love; it's His plan.
God loved us to bless us with choice of free will,
fruits of His Spirit or Satanic seed,
Every soul must strive to be like Jesus, not the Klan.
Forgive we must, plant by example
to love each other, as the King's dream, a King's plan,
one act of kindness, one word, one touch at a time,
walk hand in hand, work heart to heart.
C'mon everybody, why do we cultivate hate
when peace is to be had,
all you have to do for the dream and the plan to merge
is overcome.......do your part.
Gina Ann Day © 2008
Poets retain copyright to their work; obtain a poet's permission before using a poem in any form.
"Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord..." Hebrews 12:14
Dedicated to a Godly hero, the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Gone and will never be forgotten:
Born: 15 January 1929
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
Died: 4 April 1968 (assassination by gunshot)
Best Known As: The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream"
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means. A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama from 1954-59. There he led blacks in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, an action inspired by the arrest of Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus. Racial segregation on city buses was ruled unconstitutional in 1956; the boycott ended in success, and King had become a national figure. King returned to his home town of Atlanta in 1959 and became co-pastor with his father of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a position he held until his death. On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1963, King organized a march on Washington, D.C. that drew 200,000 people demanding equal rights for minorities. King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming at the time the youngest recipient ever. His writings included Stride Toward Freedom (1958, a history of the Montgomery bus boycott), Why We Can't Wait (1963) and Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community(1967). King was shot to death by James Earl Ray in 1968 while visiting Memphis, Tennessee.
King married Coretta Scott on 18 June 1953. The couple had four children: Yolanda (born 1955), Martin Luther III (b. 1957), Dexter (b. 1961), and Bernice (b. 1963)... He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948, then attended Crozer Theological Seminary (now part of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School) and Boston University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology in 1955.
In one of his works Dr. King makes the following statements:
"At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable."
Dr. King did not speak in terms of tolerance. His ideal was love.
"Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Yet, in current discussions of race relations the word love is seldom mentioned. Dr. King insisted love was the dominant or critical value by which we could overcome racial strife. The love he spoke of was a biblical love, one that is unconditional, unselfish and seeks the absolute good of another party. That kind of love is a tough love, one that confronts wrong and injustice with the truth -- absolute truth as decreed by an all powerful God and enables the individual to love their enemy.
Dr. King speaks to the man or woman who contends that God is unnecessary or irrelevant to our modern lives:
"At times we may feel that we do not need God, but on the day when the storms of disappointment rage, the winds of disaster blow, and the tidal waves of grief beat against our lives, if we do not have a deep and patient faith, our emotional lives will be ripped to shreds. There is so much frustration in the world because we have relied on gods rather than God. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. We have worshiped the god of pleasure only to discover that thrills play out and sensations are short-lived. We have bowed before the god of money only to learn that there are such things as love and friendship that money cannot buy and that in a world of possible depressions, stock market crashes, and bad business investments, money is a rather uncertain deity. These transitory gods are not able to save us or bring happiness to the human heart. Only God is able. It is faith in him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism."
"The Dream" starts with God as revealed through His Son, Jesus Christ. Through a relationship with Him, we can be agents of healing in a world that is sick with racial and ethnic conflict. Won't you seriously consider placing your faith in Christ, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did? God offers us this relationship with Him, and we simply respond:
Jesus Christ, I invite you to come into my life, to forgive me of my sin, to give me a new relationship with you. Bring into my heart your love and your power to love others. Thank you for transforming my life right now.
If you have surrendered to Jesus Christ, pray for a life-changing faith and a growing dependence on Him. Only He can bring into our hearts His supernatural love and the power to love others.
As God transforms our lives, we have the potential to embody that which Martin Luther King dreamed.
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Charles Gilmer is President of The Impact Movement, a partner ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ, which takes the truth of Jesus Christ to the campus, the community and the world by producing leaders of African descent who are spiritually focused, financially responsible and morally fit. He has spoken on campuses across the US and in Africa on race relations, missions and the Christian faith. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has been honored with a Doctor of Divinity degree by Carver Bible College. Charles and his wife, Rebecca, raised their six children in Orlando, Florida.
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HATRED MUST BE TAUGHT.......SAY NO TO HATE.......TRUTH
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