I got woke You got woke All God's children got woke Everybody talking 'bout woke ain't woke We all got to be woke Rise, wake up We got to be woke For the past few years I've edited a Lenten Devotional for my church. It's a work of love and joy for me -- putting out the call for submissions, nudging people to meet the deadline, gathering the submissions, proofing and editing, laying out, proofing and editing the layout, test printing, printing, distributing. Exhausting work but worth the effort. The most difficult part of the process is Lent generally falls during Black History Month. The Devotional process generally starts in January and my mind is not focused on Black History Month, something always on my mind because for me Black History is all year. This year, the process for me started on Martin Luther King's birthday. It was actually celebrated on his birthday this year since it fell on a Monday. In the past it has been only near the end of the process when...
The snow comes down on empty sand;/ There's tinsel moonlight on the waves./ My soul was lost but here I am;/ So this must be amazing grace. (From the song “There’s Still My Joy” by Beth Nielsen Chapman, Melissa Manchester, and Matt Rollings © Zesty Zacks Music)