Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 08, 2020 • 23 Comments
I release and I let go, I let the Spirit run my life. And my heart is open wide, Yes I’m only here for God. – Michael Beckwith & Rickie Byars, from “I Release” (1993) Anatomically modern humans have existed for barely two hundred thousand years. For nearly all that time, we had no... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 01, 2020 • 22 Comments
“Everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 25, 2020 • 37 Comments
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offence, let me bring pardon. Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. – attributed to St. Francis of Assisi (c.1182-1226), from “Peace Prayer” After having my first... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 18, 2020 • 31 Comments
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be! With God as our Father, brothers all are we. Let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony. – Jill Jackson-Miller (1913-1995) & Sy Miller (1908-1971), from “Let There Be... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 11, 2020 • 24 Comments
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leadeth me beside the still waters, He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. – Attributed to King David, from Psalm 23 of the Book of Psalms (1000... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 04, 2020 • 12 Comments
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved in liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, ‘Till all success be nobleness and every gain divine. – Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) from “America the Beautiful” (1895) The purpose of human life is spiritual growth, and... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 27, 2020 • 14 Comments
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men – black... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 20, 2020 • 57 Comments
Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, Nobody knows but Jesus. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, Glory hallelujah! – From a pre-1865 Negro spiritual, author unknown Every human being of every shade is a member of a single race. Modern Europeans are in fact east Africans. This scientific certainty has been achieved only very recently,... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 13, 2020 • 42 Comments
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from The Merchant of Venice (1605) As a teenager I memorized the entire “quality of mercy” speech from... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 06, 2020 • 103 Comments
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. – Clergyman John Newton (1725–1807), from Amazing Grace (1772) You were supremely brave to plan and actually enter yet another earth-lifetime. Give yourself a lot of credit for... Read More
