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<\/div>\n\nReminding me,<\/strong><\/em>
\nTo Forgive<\/strong><\/em>
\nIs NOT to forget!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
To Forgive<\/strong><\/em> Oh Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church<\/strong><\/em> In the New Testament, according to Matthew 1:23<\/strong><\/em> Emanuel<\/strong><\/em> My cup runneth over<\/strong><\/em> Emanuel<\/strong><\/em> My cup runneth over<\/strong><\/em> Emanuel<\/strong><\/em> And it shall be LOVE<\/strong><\/em> EMANUEL!<\/strong><\/em> MY CUP RUNNETH OVER!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n June 23, 2015<\/p>\n Arthur Theodore Wilson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Cup Runneth Over MY CUP RUNNETH OVER\u00a0 By Arthur Theodore Wilson (Accompanied by The Medicine Drum)\u00a0 My cup runneth over Reminding me, To Forgive Is NOT to forget! To Forgive Is really to REMEMBER That we can all be so much more Than each others’ devil drenched mistakes, Like a gun purchased as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIs really to REMEMBER<\/strong><\/em>
\nThat we can all be so much more<\/strong><\/em>
\nThan each others’ devil drenched mistakes,<\/strong><\/em>
\nLike a gun purchased as a birthday gift and pulled out at a Prayer Meeting<\/strong><\/em>
\nTo usher in death, led fervently by centuries of imprinted white supremacy hate!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nIssiah 7:14 says, “The Lord himself will give you<\/strong><\/em>
\na sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive<\/strong><\/em>
\nand bear a son, and shall call his name<\/strong><\/em>
\nEmanuel! Emanuel!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Bible<\/strong><\/em>
\nGives meaning to the name Emanuel<\/strong><\/em>
\n“God is with us.” The Hebrew word “el” means God,<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Emanu’ means, with us.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlease continue to Swing Home Sweetly<\/strong><\/em>
\n9 more of your gone too soon Lights,<\/strong><\/em>
\nMay they dance David’s Dance<\/strong><\/em>
\nWith YOU in Paradise.<\/strong><\/em>
\nRev. Clemanta Pinckney sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nCynthia Hurd sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nRev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nTywanza Sanders sings a new Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nEthel Lance sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nDepayne Middleton Doctor sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nRev. Daniel Simmons sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nMyra Thompson sings a New Song<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Nine Gone TOO SOON LIGHTS<\/strong><\/em>
\nSing a New Song of Salvation<\/strong><\/em>
\nAsking Peace to Be STILL,<\/strong><\/em>
\nRemembering,<\/strong><\/em>
\n“THOU SHALT NOT KILL!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nEmanuel I call out your name<\/strong><\/em>
\nI call you from the razor sharp remnants of slave ships<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere brutalized bones become precious minerals<\/strong><\/em>
\nTrapped at the bottom of the sea<\/strong><\/em>
\nSurrounded by every island of the world’s graveyard filled with the blood of slavery.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nI call out your names<\/strong><\/em>
\nFrom the wretched history of broken backs who labored long during cotton field centuries<\/strong><\/em>
\nI call out your name Emanuel from auction blocks,<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere big bulging eyes hung down from lynching trees<\/strong><\/em>
\nWitnessing segregation’s Christian hypocrisy —<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere racism lauded its’ POWER acting like a mad dog scratching ceaselessly at fleas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nEmanuel I call out your name<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere Black Mammies sang out LOVE to Jesus in old knotted head rags,<\/strong><\/em>
\nEmanuel I call out your name<\/strong><\/em>
\nFrom Black Sambo hauntings and denigration’s Third Degree,<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere miscegenation produced a shared DNA from rape: giving birth to YOU & ME.<\/strong><\/em>
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<\/strong><\/em>
\nEmanuel<\/strong><\/em>
\nMy cup runneth over<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs 9 more of your Lights GONE MUCH TOO SOON<\/strong><\/em>
\nShout out to us!<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Look up and Live!”<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Walk fiercely through the shadows of death!”<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Pray ceaselessly!”<\/strong><\/em>
\n“And join hands together overcoming<\/strong><\/em>
\nNever again, just wishing to overcome, but be!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nI call out your name for Justice<\/strong><\/em>
\nMy cup runneth over<\/strong><\/em>
\nAnd surely goodness and mercy shall follow “US”<\/strong><\/em>
\nAll the days of our lives,<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhere we shall dwell in the house of the Lord<\/strong><\/em>
\nFOREVER.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nNot a gun,<\/strong><\/em>
\nEmbracing us to Swing Home Sweetly<\/strong><\/em>
\nTo make a joyful noise<\/strong><\/em>
\nTo Emanuel The Son!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nEMANUEL!<\/strong><\/em>
\nEMANUEL!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n