WASHINGTON DC!!!
Friends asked me why I was going to DC for the inauguration...I said, 'its WOODSTOCK, MARDI GRAS, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR on the Lincoln Memorial steps, and Pastor Rick leading in the Lord's Prayer !!!!' HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT???
I thought Promise Keepers was a huge crowd on the Mall, but this was over the top. Solid pack of people from the Vietnam Memorial to the Senate steps...some say 2 million ...
Can you see Rick Warren, up on the stage, waving to me?...
During the James Taylor, Bono, Garth Brooks fest...I made my way around the city...the Vietnam Memorial will always be the one that grabs me most...thought of Danny Daniels and Rocky McElveen fighting as kids and coming back as men.
The crowd was SO:
- Filled with a Spirit of Celebration
- Filled with Pride for our FIRST African American President
- COLD !!!!!
- Kind and patient and downright happy
My close personal friend, Bono, took a brief moment to send me a personal shout-out from the stage. He likes to embarrass me in crowds.The highlight of my trip was PRAYING the LORD's PRAYER on the national mall with 2 million people...TV coverage didn't show the folks throwing their arms around the people next to them or holding hands and audibly saying together...
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtor. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil...for thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever...AMEN !!!!!!
WOW!! This is GREAT!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny...cause I THOUGHT I saw you on TV that day! It WAS you!
Thanks for sharing your experience in DC...(you are certainly used to large crowds and inadequate bathroom facilities!)
And Rick...I have been proudly showing people the picture of Rick baptizing me in 1986...neither one of us weighed more than 100 pounds! Aah, those were the days.
Give my love to the beautiful people of Kitale!!!