how could i ever have doubted you
your providence and wisdom amaze me
you knew what was best
you had a plan
it is so much better, so much greater
you know what i need
and orchestrate my life so that those things occur
not the things i want, necessarily
hindsight is 20/20
i can see why
i understand and am humbled and amazed
you never promised it would be easy
quite the opposite
i asked for it
i needed it
and after all is said and done
i am thankful for it
and for you
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Thursday, February 26, 2004
its time i gave up and gave in
its time to move on
and leave it all behind
i cant let this drag me down
it isnt worth it
i have known love
and love has known me
i was unaware
it has always been waiting for me
to just turn around
and receive it
that is the true love
that i now know
john 15:13-14
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
its time to move on
and leave it all behind
i cant let this drag me down
it isnt worth it
i have known love
and love has known me
i was unaware
it has always been waiting for me
to just turn around
and receive it
that is the true love
that i now know
john 15:13-14
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Monday, February 23, 2004
some interesting quotes from a frequently ignored speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (4 April 1967)
needless to say, this is a side of King's political opinions that is not highly publicized. I thought it was interesting. i know, quite a different type of posting than usual.
"Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy...Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world..."
"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak."
"I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation."
"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube"
"So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools"
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
his speech was not well-liked. conspiracy theory holds that he was assassinated on that date a year later (April 4th 1968) because of his views.
no comment....
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
needless to say, this is a side of King's political opinions that is not highly publicized. I thought it was interesting. i know, quite a different type of posting than usual.
"Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy...Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world..."
"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak."
"I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation."
"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube"
"So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools"
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
his speech was not well-liked. conspiracy theory holds that he was assassinated on that date a year later (April 4th 1968) because of his views.
no comment....
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
the clock on the wall sees everything...
it's just ticking away
God does not give us overcoming life, He gives us life as we overcome
A human being is capable of depression, otherwise there would be no capacity for exaltation
"many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which...he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires" -Immanuel Kant
"human beings generall have lost the possibility in fact; indeed, their knowledge of their authenticity is falsified by being tied up with the opinion that they have control over it." -Rudolf Bultmann
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
it's just ticking away
God does not give us overcoming life, He gives us life as we overcome
A human being is capable of depression, otherwise there would be no capacity for exaltation
"many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which...he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires" -Immanuel Kant
"human beings generall have lost the possibility in fact; indeed, their knowledge of their authenticity is falsified by being tied up with the opinion that they have control over it." -Rudolf Bultmann
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
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