Join us this Sunday in the spirit of \u201cSUUF and Me,\u201d where we share the stories of our lives. In that spirit of storytelling, that is, the sharing of stories about ourselves, I will decipher the poem, the song, entitled \u201cWhy?\u201d by Annie Lennox. As I have said on many occasions, for me, \u201cthe message is always in the music.\u201d We will explore the personal meaning that these lyrics conjure up in my mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n
Reading: \u201cAffirmation of Hope,\u201d by Loretta Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe pledge to work for that community in which justice will be actively present.<\/p>\n We affirm that we are co-creators of the future, not passive pawns.<\/p>\n We affirm a unity that opens our eyes, ears, and hearts to see the different but common forms of oppression, suffering, and pain…<\/p>\n Together we pledge action to transcend barriers \u2014 be they racial, political, economic, social, or religious.<\/p>\n We pledge to make our tomorrows become our todays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join us this Sunday in the spirit of \u201cSUUF and Me,\u201d where we share the stories of our lives. In that spirit of storytelling, that is, the sharing of stories about ourselves, I will decipher the poem, the song, entitled \u201cWhy?\u201d by Annie Lennox. As I have said on many occasions, for me, \u201cthe message … Continue reading Why?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[161],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-8602","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry","uu_service_speaker-rev-anthony-mtuaswa-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8604,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8602\/revisions\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}