family pledge
THE FORD FAMILY PLEDGE
BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor.
BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared
kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,
our children cannot pray.
BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.
BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.
BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless"
Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our
lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.
We ARE our brothers and sisters.
IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.
Dr. Maya Angelo
When the devil goes to church, he always goes on time. The reason he goes so early is just to spoil a Christian’s mind.
Time he enters the church, he’s searching the building through, trying to find the first weak spot, just to see what he can do.
The devil will get in the mothers, they won’t sing, hum, or pat their feet. Because they are too busy huffing and puffing about that seat. That’s why the devil goes to church.
The choir can’t even sing a song because they are chewing gum, just like a goat. That’s why the devil goes to church.
The pastor will announce his text talking about your sin, and you are so full of the devil, you will sit there and grin. That’s why the devil goes to church.
Written by:
Sister Omeria "Luce" Barron
Malakoff, Texas
1923-2006