[WardFive] FW: Dear Citizens of the District of Columbia… from The Big Chair to the Kennedy Center from the District Building to the Community Halls from Georgia Avenue to Wisconsin Avenue

This is a good and timely message from our Chaplain, Dr. Holmes:

From: Dr. George E. Holmes <revgeholmes@aol.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Dear Citizens of the District of Columbia… from The Big Chair to the Kennedy Center from the District Building to the Community Halls from Georgia Avenue to Wisconsin Avenue

Dear Citizens of the District of Columbia:

This day, November 4^th, 2014, is known as "Election Tuesday" around America.  This "Election Day," is upon us to make a difference for our entire city.  Today by casting a vote, it is more than about electing someone who will carry a title. This election is about who will carry the baton of justice for all of our citizens. Citizens who are already in a status of taxation, without representation. This election is about who can carry the baton for causes like elementary, secondary, vocational and college education, for public safety, healthcare, workforce equality, and opportunities for small and large businesses.

This election is about who can carry the baton for housing. Not just for public housing, but for housing that is affordable, for all the public. This election is about someone who can carry the baton for equality in the workforce, insuring that equal job duties, carries equal pay. This election is about someone who can carry the baton for all of our Wards 1 through 8. This election is about someone who can cast a protective shield for our city's youth and senior citizens and those who are disenfranchised needing better opportunities in the civic arena.

To many in the spiritual arena, this election can be translated to being my 'brother's keeper' literally.  In a city that is known as the Nation's Capital, we must protect the vitality of growth and development for our citizens which means we must get out to vote because our vote will represent that which will hold the fabric of our city together with a common thread of care and compassion. Care and compassion for our veterans as well as our disabled, for the trying to do as well as the well to do, for those that have and those who aspire to have, for the sick as well as the well, in other words, care and compassion for all wards and groups, for all of God's creation.

My prayer is that we vote to have a more united city and not a city divided my economic, racial, social and cultural barriers.  Some have had the fortune to learn and others need to know that there are resources for their development and growth in this city. On this Election Day, let us galvanize with our faith institutions, community groups, civic associations, co-workers, family and friends to support continued positive change in Washington, DC.

We must strive like Nehemiah on the wall, Moses for the people and Deborah for her Country in their quest to have a better and brighter day. Therefore, as the Book of James illustrates, "faith without works is dead," and our work today is to help others get to the polls, ensure that those who have voted, have not been hindered in the process and to make sure that anyone in our reach, who is registered, has voted today.  When we do this act of faith, with works, then we will see the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., come to life,

"And I have not lost faith. I'm not in despair, because I know that there is a moral order. I haven't lost faith, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." [And] "We Shall Overcome."

So Today Family, let us rise to coalesce and consecrate our desires and efforts to Get Out The Vote from The Big Chair to the Kennedy Center from the District Building to the Community Halls from Georgia Avenue to Wisconsin Avenue from Benning Road to River Road from The Temple of Praise to the National Cathedral!

Today Washington, DC, let us rise as "One City" and Get Out To Vote on this Election Day, Tuesday, November 4^th, 2014, knowing that in our great City, the Nation's Capital, "Our Best is Yet to Come."

Thank you for being such a wonderful blessing to our Citizens in the District of Columbia and to this Great Nation of ours.   

 

Please continue to make a positive difference. Please continue to be amazing. Please continue to be you.

 

May God Bless You, Your Family, Washington, DC and the United States of America, Always.  

 

Humbly submitted,

Rev. Dr. George E. Holmes,

President Barack Obama National Clergy Leadership Group,

Chaplain and Chair of the Religious Council, District of Columbia Democratic State Committee

& At-Large Delegate for Ward 3 Democratic Committee