| 04/04/02 -- A PRAYER BREAKFAST FOR NEW HAVEN, AMERICA AND THE WORLD
SPONSORED BY THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CLERGY ASSOCIATION
AND
CHARLES PILLSBURY, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
IN MEMORY OF THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
ON THE 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH AND THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
FAMOUS ANTI-WAR SPEECH "BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK
SILENCE"
"A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: ‘This way of settling our differences is not just.’…A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." April 4, 1967
CLOSING PRAYER MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. PRAYER BREAKFAST:
THE LORD IS OUR SHEPHERD
WE SHALL NOT WANT NOR DESPAIR
GOD MAKES US LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES
GOD LEADS US BESIDE STILL, PEACEFUL AND HOPE-FILLED WATERS
GOD LIFTS UP OUR HEARTS AND RESTORES OUR SOULS
GOD MAKES US WALK TOGETHER IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND TRUTH TO GLORIFY GOD’S HOLY NAME
YEA, THOUGH WE WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF
DEATH, AND VIOLENCE, AND WAR, HERE, IN OUR CITIES, IN AMERICA,
NEW HAVEN, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, D.C., IN JERUSALEM, IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, IN AFGHANISTAN, IN COLOMBIA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF
THE WORLD, WE SHALL FEAR NO EVIL, FOR YOU O GOD ARE WITH US,
AND WITH ALL YOUR CHILDREN
YOUR ROD AND YOUR STAFF, YOUR LOVE AND YOUR HOLY SPIRIT,
SHALL COMFORT AND PROTECT US
YOU PREPARE FOR US A TABLE TO WHICH WE SHALL INVITE OUR
ENEMIES TO BECOME OUR NEIGHBORS AND OUR FRIENDS
YOU ANOINT OUR HEADS WITH THE OIL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE
OUR CUPS OVERFLOW WITH YOUR LOVE AND COMPASSION
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY, JUSTICE AND PEACE, AND DR. KING’S
SPIRIT AND MESSAGE OF NONVIOLENCE SHALL FOLLOW US, AND LIFT
US, AND BRING US TO A NEW DAY
AND WE, AND MARTIN, AND ABRAHAM, AND SARAH AND HAGAR, AND
ISAAC AND ISHMAEL, AND JACOB AND ESAU, SHALL DWELL TOGETHER IN
PEACE, AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
WHICH SURELY HAS ROOM FOR ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, THIS DAY, AND
FOREVERMORE.
AMEN
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