Lift Every Voice and Sing
Song by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev'ry
voice and sing
'Til
earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
Stony
the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
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Our ZHS on-line schedule
- Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
- Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
- M-F: 7-7:30am - zazen
- Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
- For more information: www.zenheartsangha.org)
Special bows for today:
- Please offer bows for Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died 9/18/2020
- Please offer bows for all those families who have lost their lives or their homes in the recent fires in Oregon, California, and Washington
- Please offer bows for Takiko Kawakami, Fumiko Arao's mother who died 9/2/2020
- Please offer bows for Jacob Blake, shot and paralyzed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and for the protesters shot and killed in Portland, OR last weekend
- Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:
- Phyllis Merrill, Misha's mother, who is dying
- Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
- From our dharma brother Jim: I thought that Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing was an appropriate poem/song to celebrate. They played in at the beginning of each NFL football game this week. More information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing.
- Need something to lift your spirits? https://youtu.be/JNgCM7zp30M
- Zen Heart Sangha website: resources about COVID-19: www.zenheartsangha.org
- From our dharma sister, Misha: incredible graphics and information about COVID-19 https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/
- From our dharma sister, Camille: an important commentary on race, riots and society to help us understand from Trevor Noah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c
- If you would like to leave a comment on this blog: Here is a quick video on how to--it's from 2017, but should work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4RflO5Wgg
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