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Dr. King on Easter Wknd-April 1963!!!! Happy Easter everybody!!!

Easter Weekend.....1963!!!

Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested in Birmingham, AL for helping to fight for racial equality. Instead of fighting the police and racism, he kneeled in prayer to God along with many others. While in jail, he wrote the famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail!" A letter in response to criticism from local Birmingham preachers urging him to call off the protests in the city. One message stated there was that the word "wait" almost always meant "never".

In one of King's easter sermons, he told the people that Good Friday comes before Easter and that all of us must bear a cross before we receive the crown. As King and Gandhi carried the cross, we who believe in freedom must also carry one. While it isn't easy, we know that there are greater and better days ahead!!

Let's continue to exercise our faith in God. In the midst of hatred, violence, and war, we still have access to the heavenly father and he in turn willl provide us with that inner peace that can't be taken away from others!!! God bless all this Easter weekend!!

Lawrence Giden

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