We did.
When Detroit was down in need of your hand, and, hope, we told you so.
When we asked you to help and come, we told you so. We rang out: HELP!
We told you when my Motown was ailing in need of a neighbor's tender stooping to lift life up, to serve, to save, to share.
When a series of Love God/Love Neighbor: Detroit events were set, we told you so.
And WWJ All New Radio 950 AM told you too!
We did. We wanted you to to be part of our emergency team and ICU.
When Roseville Sacred Heart Catholic Church hosted a session last Monday, a dozen strong stood with Detroit's Mayor and spoke up to provide salve for my City. After all, I grew up there on Lynch Road and Van Dyke, near the Detroit City Airport that still lives!
Concrete ideas to save Detroit were hatched in Dearborn again this past Friday also at the Karbala Mosque, Eduction Center and Museum with Imam Hasha Al-Husainy, a vibrant and enthusiastic pastoral leader. The Imam spoke of a proposal for international manufacturing in the home he fled decades ago. He spoke of an automobile assembly plant in Iraq where the U.S. pulls out December 20th.
The good Imam wants Detroit to be there to build autos.
He spoke of a plan he presented to the former Governor Granholm for Michigan jobs. It was widely and well received, the Imam complained. What happened? Out loud, he wondered what happened to his proposal a few years ago. Did someone steal away his idea?
Did bureacracy bury it? What? At the meeting Friday with Dion Williams, the business and faith-based manager for the City of Detroit, the Imam pitched this proposal with suburbanites from Dearborn, Clinton Township, and Harrison Township residents who are enduring and daunting lights glowing with more than goodwill to fix a broken city.
"Perhaps faith is the answer," State Representative Harold Haugh of Roseville and part of Fraser, said. Faith will move mountains, and move us to to make a miracle and save Detroit.
We told you so, and the Scriptures also to love God and neighbor, so did Channel 2 Fox News, and WDIV. God's watching and wanting us to help, for sure! Our great God of love must be smiling on the little lights lifting my town!
The hymn, Amazing Grace, rang out with Pastor Anthony Whitehorn of Mt. Clemens, Marge Hallman of East Pointe, Al Bileti of Fraser St. Athanasius Church, Donna Mesyn of St. Thecla Church, and Lyn Vogler of Clinton Township, Robert Waters of Hope Center on Groesbeck, north of Fourteen, who resides in Harrison Township, Mohamed Abass of the American-Islamic Community Center in Madison Heights, who recently married and lives in Sterling Heights now, the mending Rabbi Modehai Waldman of Berkley, formerly of a Temple in Mt. Clemens, Abdulla of Dearborn, who rode his bicycle twenty-two miles to pray and attend Friday's meeting to pray with us at Karbala was also there.
They'll be there to greet you at lunch Friday, Dec. 16 at 12:30 in Laikon's Cafe at 569 Monroe in Detroit's Greektown by St. Mary's Catholic Church, and the Greektown Casino. And, before that at 11:40 am the same day in Saints Peter and Paul Jesuit Church, join me for Mass in the first Cathedral of the historic Detroit Diocese at 438 St. Antoine at Jefferson (across from the GM/Ren Cen). And, on Monday, Dec. 26th from 6-9 pm, join me once more at SS. Peter and Paul (via the Larned UDM Law School Parking Lot gardenway entrance) for a benefit for the Warming Center of this church to share left-over food from Christmas Day, and, to hear some funny faith stories and humor. Visit this gem of a church, this gem of my Motown Downtown Detroit.
And, Rabbi Dorit Edut of downtown Detroit's Isaac Agree Synagogue at 1457 Griswold (at Clifford, 248 543 4255, mutzim@aol.com) will be on hand Monday, Dec. 19th at 4-5 pm to greet you and lead us in Love God/Love Neighbor:Detroit, an All Faiths Festival (AFF) initiative. Mayor Dave Bing and the City Council, and more, have been invited to all these events to build bonds and bridges with the 'burbs and beyond with my Motown.
From the Downtown Detroit Isaac Agree Synagogue, Dec. 19th, some of us will head to St. Claude Catholic Chapel at 33826 Beaconsfield, north of 14 Mile Road in Clinton Township for a 6:30 pm Neighborhood Watch meeting where neighbors will forge a front and mount a defense to keep our cities clean and safe and neighborly. Let Dawn at St. Thecla know you're coming at 586 791 3930, or me at 586 530 7576. We want to set up for all these events and appreciate knowing that we need to put out a chair and table setting for you, our neighbor!
Little lights -- each is -- making lots of light and love for the City we love, our neighbor, ailing in emergency, hoping believers will visit, pray, serve, give, get, go to Motown now, today, tonight, tomorrow, forever!
There is a balm to heal and salve and save my City that's broke. Faith's miracle will mend and see us through the tunnel with your hands, heart and help please. With you, we will strengthen family and faith and finances, and security, and Detroit's gem, and, quality of life in the region with ICU, Inclusive Communities Uniting, we will! As Detroit goes, so goes the region, State, and . . .
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
We told you so. . .now help mend my Motown, and make a miracle and more! Step up! Wait no longer to make a difference when Detroit is down.
Cool, my family will be downtown with you Father Ventline. Thanks so much for your lead.
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