dr. luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray -- gracious and the eternal god, as we concludes as we see to become, in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, loving you and our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will bless us with your continued presence because without it, hatred and arrogance will in fact our hearts but with your blessings, we know we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today because without it mistrust, prejudice, and rancor will rule our hearts. but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of mutual regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing because without it suspicion, despair, and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image, a unit of god's grace unprecedented, a repeatable, and irreplaceable. we pray for your blessing because without it, we will see only what the eye can see but with the blessing -- your blessing, we will see we are created in your imag

dr. luis leon gave the benediction and quoted the prophet micah where he says do justice, love kindness,alk humbly before your god. >> well, in some sense we have a kind of americanized version of prosperity gospel religion in america, and yet micah asked the question how do you worship? do you worship with fatted calves or rivers of oil? you do justice and you love mercy and walk before god not arrogantly. that's micah's answer to the question. jesus puts another one. he says preach the gospel, good news to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, set the captive free. so i thought he was very profound in his prayer today, but i thought president obama back to that again delved deeply into the declaration of independence today much like dr. king did talking about the american promise, the big tent where you are gay or straight or whether you are black or white, whether you are in appalachia or selma, all are in and nobody is out. i thought that was the major thrust of that address today. >> thank you so much for joining us on this special day. and i'm delighted to say that having steamed throu

dr. luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> one little moment of drama leading up to this, he replaced originalet us pray. gracious and eternal god as we conclude the second inauguration of president obama we ask for your blessings as we seek to become in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will bless us with your continued presence because without it, arrogance will infect our hearts, but with your blessing we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today because without it mistrust, prejudice and rancor will rule our hearts. but with the blessing of your presence we know that we can renew the future which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing because without it, suspicious, despair and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life. but with your blessing we can see each other created in your image, that unit of god's grace, unprecedented, irrefutable and irreplaceable. we pray for your blessing because without it we will see on

dr. luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray.onclude the second inauguration of president obama, we ask for your blessings as we seek to become in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, letting the and letting our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will cost us with your continued presence because without it, hatred and arrogance will infect our hearts. but with your blessing, we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today because without it, mistrust, prejudice, and rancor will rule our hearts. but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of beach or regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing because without it, suspicion, despair, and fear of those different from us will be our role of light. but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image, a unit of god's grace unprecedented, a reputable and irreplaceable. we pray for your blessing because without it, we will see only what the

dr. luis leone, to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray.the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will bless us with your continued presence, because without it, hatred and arrogance will infect our hearts. but with your blessing, we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today, because without it, mistrust, prejudice and rancor will rule our hearts but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of mutual regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your he is breast bless blessing. fears of those different from us will be our rule of life. but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image, unit of god's grace, unprecedented repeatable and irreplaceable. we pray for your blessing because without it, we will see only what the eye can see, but with the blessing of your blessing, we will see that we are created in your image, whether brown, black or white,

dr. luis leon. the church of the president, st.ernment we want, which is infrastructure, regulation, all the good things, and then recognized the government can't solve all the problems. i thought that was a reaching out, if you will, a shout at the tea party right that's rejectionist. then far more interesting, seemed to be a call out to tehran. he said our old enemies become our new friends. we're going to try to do that again. learn from the lessons in the past as we've done with vietnam and the germans and japanese and all the people we've gone to woor with and it's an amazing idea to throw that idea in the face of the neo cons. they hated what we heard him say. i spent some time with an iranian family this past weekend. they said go over to talk to the people. he said you media never talk to the iranians. not the mull yeahs. he knows the that the most important thing committee do this year is avoid a war. everything else is secondary, a war with iran. it was a powerful link to that speech. >> the president saying enduring secu