The hymn for today is, most obviously, a baptismal hymn, but also a hymn
of deliverance (play it on MuseScore for a limited time).
In
my own spirit, I am taking this as a message from the Lord (regarding
our ongoing difficulties with the city) to not worry; He’s got
this! And it is in complete keeping with what I was told, by God, at
the beginning of all this: That we would lose the battle in order to
win the war.
It
is as Scott Egan stated in the news conference held, filmed, and
shown yesterday (and to be shown again tonight, tomorrow and Sunday),
the Federal government is getting sick of the government of this
metropolitan area, and of the treatment being leveled at the homeless
by haters and governments nationwide. The Justice Department has
already called it a violation of the Constitutional Rights of those
who are homeless as embodied in the Fourth and Eighth Amendments:
freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and freedom from cruel
and unusual punishment.
When it became known that the United States
was using sleep deprivation techniques against their prisoners in the
war on terrorism, the world went ballistic. How, then, can it be seen
as right to use those same techniques against their own citizens who
have not even been accused of crimes and misdemeanors?
LET THEM
SLEEP! LEAVE THEM ALONE! HELP THEM!
Help,
Lord! Shine Your Light of Righteousness into that despicable place
where men are treated like dogs and dogs like men! Amen!