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The "Ask Not" Speech Remembered
Posted: January 23, 2011
What a remarkable speech it was!…
The "Ask Not" Speech Remembered
What a remarkable speech it was!
Fifty years ago this week
I heard my childhood hero speak.
He asked me not to seek to get
but rather seek to serve.
A boy of eight (that's all I was)
inspired by this leader's cause
and captured by a Boston brogue
I'd never heard before.
Although I later came to learn
what JFK should well have spurned,
his "don't ask" message was Christ-like.
"Don't seek to be served!" "Serve!"
"For the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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