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“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
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“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SPC Margaret Higgins MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. PFC David Foster Sgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) PO2 Marco Monsalve LTC David Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] PO1 Tony Holland SSG William Jones 1SG Dan Capri SPC Nancy Greene PO1 Tony Holland SrA John MonettePO1 Tony Holland
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Thanks for the Hoping for Humanity link. Hope you don't mind that I C&P some of it.
"Hoping for Humanity
By Jimmy McGee, The IMPACT Movement
Excerpt from Celebrate Hope: Looking Back, Stepping Up Reflections from Our Daily Bread Voices Collection
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
Hope is at the heart of Holy Scripture, and we celebrate the hope of African Americans. Black people are intimately acquainted with hope—and hope deferred, defined as “put off for a later time, postponed.”
Black people have resided in the United States for more than four hundred years under various forms of enslavement. Legally, Black people were slaves until 1865 and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment. When our bodies were unshackled, our socialization and minds remained in chains under Jim Crow and Black Codes until 1964, before the Civil Rights Bill passed and the 1965 Voting Rights Act was enacted. Google Black Codes to see their detrimental influence.
Even when racial mores and penalizing practices were finally deemed illegal, their evil persisted. In recent years, Black Codes have been restored in new ways: Some people think Blacks don’t belong, can’t wait in a café, can’t fall asleep in our college dorm lobby, can’t enjoy a vacation home rental, can’t prepare properties for sale, can’t sit in our apartment at the end of the day eating ice cream, or can’t take a peaceful walk in the park. The can’t list goes on. Black people are well acquainted with hope being late, postponed, delayed, deferred.
History books talk about the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, followed by the wait for the constitutional amendment to enforce it and the wait for all those in slavery to find out they were officially free on “Juneteenth.” Abraham Lincoln had already declared Black people free from bondage, free to fight in the Civil War against former slave owners. But ex-slaves experienced hope deferred. Just as Moses and the Israelites found after fighting against Pharaoh and Egypt, crossing the Red Sea, and marching toward the Promised Land, we, too, discovered that freedom had not given us what we expected."...
"Hoping for Humanity
By Jimmy McGee, The IMPACT Movement
Excerpt from Celebrate Hope: Looking Back, Stepping Up Reflections from Our Daily Bread Voices Collection
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
Hope is at the heart of Holy Scripture, and we celebrate the hope of African Americans. Black people are intimately acquainted with hope—and hope deferred, defined as “put off for a later time, postponed.”
Black people have resided in the United States for more than four hundred years under various forms of enslavement. Legally, Black people were slaves until 1865 and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment. When our bodies were unshackled, our socialization and minds remained in chains under Jim Crow and Black Codes until 1964, before the Civil Rights Bill passed and the 1965 Voting Rights Act was enacted. Google Black Codes to see their detrimental influence.
Even when racial mores and penalizing practices were finally deemed illegal, their evil persisted. In recent years, Black Codes have been restored in new ways: Some people think Blacks don’t belong, can’t wait in a café, can’t fall asleep in our college dorm lobby, can’t enjoy a vacation home rental, can’t prepare properties for sale, can’t sit in our apartment at the end of the day eating ice cream, or can’t take a peaceful walk in the park. The can’t list goes on. Black people are well acquainted with hope being late, postponed, delayed, deferred.
History books talk about the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, followed by the wait for the constitutional amendment to enforce it and the wait for all those in slavery to find out they were officially free on “Juneteenth.” Abraham Lincoln had already declared Black people free from bondage, free to fight in the Civil War against former slave owners. But ex-slaves experienced hope deferred. Just as Moses and the Israelites found after fighting against Pharaoh and Egypt, crossing the Red Sea, and marching toward the Promised Land, we, too, discovered that freedom had not given us what we expected."...
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