Christian Reflection and Prayer

Black History Month

I have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963

(Here is the last part of the I have a dream speech.
Let us remember and cherish these words.)

This will be the day when all of God's children will
be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country,
'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride,
from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this
must become true. So let freedom ring from the
prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let
freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies
of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks
of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone
Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of
Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every
molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside,
let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every
hamlet, from every state and every city, we
will be able to speed up that day when all of
God's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of
the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last!
thank God Almighty, we are
free at last!"

Prayer:

LORD WE PRAY FOR THAT DAY!