Lord, we are not worthy…
ARC © August 12, 2022
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Lord, we are not worthy for you to enter under our roof:
but, please say the word, and our souls will be healed.
This prayer is communal one taught in a religious creed:
plea begs for forgiveness for every major or minor deed.
It aches to read Norm Chomsky’s Who Rules the World:
transparency shockingly explicit in American truths.
Unilateral decisions keep power superiority:
survival supersedes democratic priority.
Our heritage is not taught honestly in schools:
The 1619 Project illustrates gaps in education.
History repeats itself when fail to learn from past:
subterfuged in deceptive language, sins are vast.
KARMA is a principle held in revered standing:
Cause and Effect analogous explaining interconnection.
America’s sins from Slavery to Vietnam War are turpitudes:
contrast to civilized caring/sharing known as beatitudes.
At five, stole penny gum from local Goode Shoppe:
conscience tormented until placed nickel on counter.
Not just what was value, but interest demanded more:
when we trespass/sin against, soul threatened at corps.
America’s sins from foundation are glossed over/taught:
slave labor/Indian colonization/disenfranchised minorities.
We are paying, with interest, to date for evils at conception:
until acknowledgment/repentance, karma constant reception.
Trespasses continue in current epoch of modern time:
biblical lore says choice first gift to human creation.
Abraham `told’ to sacrifice/return son to heaven roots:
yet, `courts’ say women must bear `their decided fruits’.
Alas, we do not have Warren or Ginsburg anymore:
some current misled to secure, then defiled integrity.
As they did in the past with Dred Scott decision:
prejudiced opinion causing country collision.
`Survival of the Fittest’ will not be America’s swan song:
refusal to love supreme… neighbor as self will be eulogy.
`Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread and forgive us…:
according to our deeds chasten or reward plus.
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Instead, he confessed, “Master, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed” (Matthew 8:8).
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Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for rimes that still lie ahead…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpitude
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Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
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Jun 24, 2022 — In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional ...
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On March 6, 1857, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Black people were not American citizens and could not sue in courts of law.
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