SECOND SUNDAY AFTER ADVENT
Today is the SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT! We are coming close to the festivity of Christmas and thereafter enter the New Year 2018. I pray Dear Lord, that as our country faces a trial time of 'CHANGE AT THE TOP', we endure the Peace and tranquillity leading to the direction of a better Sierra Leone.
I therefor dedicate this song (based on The Late Dr Martin Luther King's famous speech "I Have A Dream" to which I have modified the words in the context and consideration of our Sierra Leone Community wherever our people finds themselves🌞. And I do sincerely hope/dream, that our Christian Churches of ALL denominations and ALL Political colours, will adopt this prayerful song ahead of our forth coming test of change - the elections - on 7th March 2018.
May the Lord Almighty direct and guide our people in choosing a Leadership that brings forth prosperity, continued Peace and development in The Land That We Love, "Our Sierra Leone"!
https://youtu.be/1ZQGfLT1who
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"We Have A Dream":
Based on Martin Luther-King Jr. Famous Freedom Speech.
Original words by Michael Forster (b.1946); based on the speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
WOODLANDS 10 101 0 10 4/4 Time- To the Tune : “ Tell out my Soul” by Walter Greatorex (1877 -1949)
We Have A Dream
1. We have a dream; this nation will arise
and truly live according to its creed,
that all are equal in their maker’s eyes,
and none shall suffer through another’s greed.
2. We have a dream; that one day we shall see
a world of justice, truth and equity,
where sons and daughters all will be free
to share the banquet of our community.
3. We have a dream; our land be brought to flow’r
once made infertile by destruction’s heat
when love and truth shall end oppressive pow’r,
and streams of righteousness and justice meet.
4. We have a dream; our children shall be free
from judgements based on tribe and inequity;
free to become whatever they want to be,
of their own choosing in the light of grace.
5. We have a dream; that truth will overcome
the fear and anger of our present day;
that rich and poor will share a common home,
and hand in hand will walk in a pleasant way.
6. We have a dream; each valley will be raised
and ev’ry mountain, ev’ry hill brought down;
then shall creation echo perfect praise,
and share God’s glory under freedom’s crown.
Original Text: Copy right 1997 Kevin Meyhew Ltd; Words modified by Israel Parper 2010 for domestic (Sierra Leone) consumption: Music(c) Copyright Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP ; Used by permission from ‘Enlarged Songs of Praise.
