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Salute to the New Year (1962-01-05); The Strength to be Free (1960-07-01)
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Thurman draws from his work "Meditations of the Heart" to reflect upon the meaning of a new year. He suggests that each passing year is a "year that has fulfilled itself and passed on," and is filled with change, fresh starts, grace, and hard lessons. In the passing of the previous year, Thurman suggests, there is an "opportunity to love life more wisely," noting that both the past and the future are "Golden Ages." In this recording within the We Believe Series; Thurman draws from his work "Meditations of the Heart," to reflect upon the content of freedom, as the July 4th holiday approaches him and the original audience. He waxes over the variety of expressions of freedom: freedom as release from a current moment, freedom as a wide-open road, freedom as responsibility which leads to growth in wisdom. While discerning these forms of freedom, Thurman returns to a mantra, "Give me the strength to be free and to endure the burden of freedom and loneliness of those without change."
Part of the Collection, We Believe (Television Series, 1958-1965)
Tags: angels, beginnings, birds, change, child, completion, conformity, death, Fourth of July, freedom, friendship, future, God, gratitude, holiday, innocent, life, maturity, movement, new start, New Years Day, organism, re-ordering, responsibility, seasons, soul, strength, time, tomorrow, understanding, unity, wisdom
Dustin Mailman
Recorded in WHDH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Salute to the New Year (1962-01-05); The Strength to be Free (1960-07-01),” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/1224.
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By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)In this recording within the We Believe Series; Thurman draws from his work "Meditations of the Heart" to reflect upon the meaning of a new year. He suggests that each passing year is a "year that has fulfilled itself and passed on," and is filled with change, fresh starts, grace, and hard lessons. In the passing of the previous year, Thurman suggests, there is an "opportunity to love life more wisely," noting that both the past and the future are "Golden Ages." In this recording within the We Believe Series; Thurman draws from his work "Meditations of the Heart," to reflect upon the content of freedom, as the July 4th holiday approaches him and the original audience. He waxes over the variety of expressions of freedom: freedom as release from a current moment, freedom as a wide-open road, freedom as responsibility which leads to growth in wisdom. While discerning these forms of freedom, Thurman returns to a mantra, "Give me the strength to be free and to endure the burden of freedom and loneliness of those without change."
Part of the Collection, We Believe (Television Series, 1958-1965)
Tags: angels, beginnings, birds, change, child, completion, conformity, death, Fourth of July, freedom, friendship, future, God, gratitude, holiday, innocent, life, maturity, movement, new start, New Years Day, organism, re-ordering, responsibility, seasons, soul, strength, time, tomorrow, understanding, unity, wisdom
Dustin Mailman
Recorded in WHDH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Salute to the New Year (1962-01-05); The Strength to be Free (1960-07-01),” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/1224.