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| Morning Coffee: George Mendoza |
A song to accompany today's Monday Morning Offering...
We Shall Overcome by the Morehouse College Glee Club
By the power of your saving love, Lord,
help our nation overcome
the bias that divides us,
the bigotry bred by mistrust
and the pain that comes of prejudice...
Let us never for a moment
pretend to love you and at the same time
ignore, mistreat or abandon our neighbors
brothers and sisters all, near and far,
children of one Father,
one in Christ our brother, one family,
blessed by our diversity,
yours in our humanity...
In the depths of our hearts, Lord,
help us overcome our racism,
our prejudice and partiality,
our bias and our bigotry,
our narrow-minded thinking
and the ways we rush to judgment...
Help us overcome our pride, our self-importance,
our undeserved privileges and rights,
our denial of what's fact, what's true,
our careless disregard of others' pain and plight...
And, Lord, help us overcome the thought
that we're above all this,
the temptation to believe
that no such faults are ours...
Help us overcome
and move beyond the status quo,
all that keeps us from real change,
from inertia's grip on our efforts,
paralyzing progress and keeping things
the way they've always been...
Help us overcome what keeps us apart,
what discriminates and segregates,
what separates and divides us,
what keeps us from being one nation,
under your rule, Lord,
one indivisible nation
with equal liberty and equal justice
for all...
That's what we pray this morning, Lord,
and that's all we have to offer you:
our plea that you help us do
what we have not done ourselves,
what we cannot do on our own,
what we cannot do without your help,
your grace, your strength
and your blessing...
Amen.
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