And when this happens, when we allow freedom to 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!"
We were free to roam the city streets this morning. A good crowd enjoyed a quiet loop around Lenox Mall.
"A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Confucius
50 weeks X 20 miles = 1,000 miles. Most of us will do 1,000 in 2011.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." - Hewrews 12:1
"Do you know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize." - 1 Corinthians 9:24
"My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy." - John Bryant
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