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The House of the Lord
My High Points at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor 12th Annual Conference
June 14, 2017 by Herbert Daughtry
Part Eleven
It is proper and right that I conclude this series with a hearty thank you – again, and again – ad infinitum to the Samuel DeWitt Proctor 12th Annual Conference for the “Beautiful Feet Award” and for all that transpired at the Conference in February 20-23, 2017; and, for inspiring this series which caused me to dig deep into my activist past and dig up precious memories of important events long buried and forgotten. The exercise has been immensely rewarding. From my present perspective, I have experienced clearer insight of people and events.
The journey backwards has not always been pleasant. I’ve made mistakes. Yes, I have many regrets, but I am profoundly grateful and pleased, but when all things are considered, I have put some scribbles on the pages of history. Robert Browning, the poet, has written, “What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me.” I added to it, “What I aspired to do, and did not, comforts me.”
To quote an old preacher, who said, “Well, children, we are going to reach for the stars tonight. If we fall by the moon, we still reached high places.”