Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Langston Hughes http://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Advent Day 3: Hope in the Wait http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-3-hope-wait/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-3-hope-wait/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:00:19 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6234 *photo above: inside Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you,
 for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? —Langston Hughes We don’t like waiting. We want everything right now. Stores announce “Christmas is Here” the day after Thanksgiving… but Christmas isn’t here. Not yet. A more accurate statement […]

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