{"id":160,"date":"2016-10-23T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:41:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:41:55","slug":"sunday-redemption-and-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, redemption and Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived early at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodwinmbchurch.org\/\">Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church<\/a> to experience the full measure of the Praise time music and call to worship. \u00a0To say it was uplifting is do to it a disservice. It is a coming together in song and spirit that carries through and touches everyone\u00a0blessed to be there.<\/p>\n<p>The Deacons and Deaconesses are dressed in black suits, the latter in fabulous hats. \u00a0I watched as the father of a young women receiving her baptism discreetly wiped a tear as he returned to his seat. \u00a0I listened as Rev. Dr. James Jackson first asks us to contemplate if God was fair. \u00a0Then, within a powerful message\u00a0of\u00a0redemption\u00a0he humanized our brokenness.<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8211; Just when\u00a0I managed to get the audio on track, I totally missed the effect of the back lighting and camera angle. \u00a0Please bear with it as Dr. Jackson&#8217;s message is well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube video=UvnFDP5zPSQ]<\/p>\n<p>And because, not once, but twice today, Langston Hughes was recited to me\u00a0in\u00a0two unrelated interactions, I leave you with this,<\/p>\n<p>DEMOCRACY, by Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<p>Democracy will not come<br \/>\nToday, this year<br \/>\nNor ever<br \/>\nThrough compromise and fear.<br \/>\nI have as much right<br \/>\nAs the other fellow has<br \/>\nTo stand<br \/>\nOn my two feet<br \/>\nAnd own the land.<br \/>\nI tire so of hearing people say,<br \/>\nLet things take their course.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is another day.<\/p>\n<p>I do not need my freedom when I&#8217;m dead.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot live on tomorrow&#8217;s bread.<br \/>\nFreedom<br \/>\nIs a strong seed<br \/>\nPlanted<br \/>\nIn a great need.<br \/>\nI live here, too.<\/p>\n<p>I want freedom<br \/>\nJust as you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived early at the Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church to experience the full measure of the Praise time music and call to worship. \u00a0To say it was uplifting is do to it a disservice. It is a coming together in song and spirit that carries through and touches everyone\u00a0blessed to be there. The Deacons and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday, redemption and Langston Hughes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,42,23,21],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alarmed","tag-blessed","tag-hopeful","tag-scared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}