Obama, Mrs. Kennedy and Me-Remembering the Moment

Candidate Obama with Jackie Wright


An Email Exhange on the Road to the White House



April 7, 2008

Dear Family and Friends,

I just want to say “Look What the Lord Has Done!” When I woke up yesterday morning, Sunday, I had no idea that before the day was over I would meet the next President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. I was invited to be a guest at a $2,500 per person reception in Kentfield, in Marin County, the richest county in California, possibly the nation.

As I walked toward the gorgeous home with, Dr. Ramona Tascoe, Darryl and Gavin, a woman who was standing with a crowd across the street walked up to us and said “We love Barack. My son is in Iraq would you ask Barack to say hello to us when he leaves.” I nodded yes, and said ok, ok. As I walked in the driveway I wondered how in the world was I going to keep my word and why had I said yes? I had had no intention of approaching Obama. I just wanted to see him.

The Lord gave me the presence of mind to ask a questions as Obama was getting near the end of his question and answer period. I began raising my hand going from the left to the right as I tired, but never putting my hand down. So he said “this is the last question” and began looking to see whom he’d call on and people in the crowd began pointing to me because I had had my hand up so long (as the Bible says the hand of the diligent shall rule!). So he pointed to me.

“My name is Jackie Wright, no relation to Dr. Jeremiah Wright, except by the Spirit. There is a mother out front whose son is in Iraq. She says she loves you and would you stop by and say hello when you leave. Your comments on Iraq…And…” He interrupted me and asked “how many questions are you going to squeeze in?” “As many as I can,” I responded…”Would you join Oprah Winfrey June 15th at Stanford University as She is being honored?” (More details on the project headed by Darryl Obama Provost to come).

He commented on Iraq; but for me the highlight was his action. About half an hour after he had left, I found out that he indeed stopped and spoke to the people standing outside and signed the cap of Mrs. Noreen Kennedy’s son. When God gave me the courage to speak up for her I had no idea that her name was Kennedy, that her son a 27 year old Captain was on his second tour of 15 months and that he was in the 101st Airborne. Nor did I know she was an immigrant from Ireland who had become a citizen to vote for Barack Obama.

Those close to me know the sensitivity I have around soldiers and their families with my father having served in the 114th Aviation Company in Viet Nam, dying while on his last mission as honor guard for then Secretary of War, Robert S. McNamara, two weeks from coming home. I felt compelled to get the message to Obama.

In the email below you will find Mrs. Kennedy’s remarks to me and the photos of Barack Obama taking a “Jesus moment” “caring for the least of these my brothers.” No one had to throw a rock at his car to stop him (per that popular email). He took the time to care.

You may get another email with a photo of Mrs. Kennedy and me when I get mine developed which may include the picture of me being chided by Barack for trying to pose with him as I shook his hand after he had said he didn’t have time to pose. Since I couldn’t get all my questions in, I at least wanted a posed photo and not just a candid.

There are a lot of historical things going on. Check out www.sfexodus.com for instance. Wow, its been an inspired weekend for me beginning with the prayer luncheon at the Miracles of Faith Church with Reverend Greg Brown as pastor, commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; speaking on Saturday to Dr. Terecita Dean’s students, “Kids on the Move America” about Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and Dr. King's "I have Been to the Mountain Top" speeches in the newly renovated Victorian in Alameda that once housed the Red Cross where I worked; and Sunday, meeting Barack Obama as a result of being the messenger for Mrs. Kennedy! As the Bible says “God is not a respecter of persons. What He does for one He’ll do for others.” I hope this encourages you in every way. Everyday God gives us gifts that we don’t plan for or deserve. Today is a gift! Make the most of it. Expect the unexpected!

Sincerely,

Jackie

Mrs. Noreen Kennedy thanks Jackie Wright
for delivering a message to Candidate Obama
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> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 19:13:18 -0700
> From: noreen2045@yahoo.com
> Subject: Fwd: You & Obama
> To: 1jackiewright@msn.com
>
> Hi Jackie, I'm the lady that you asked Barack to come talk to. Someone took pictures which just added to what was already an amazing day. I can't thank you enough, not knowing who I was, for taking the time to ask your question. My son always says "the American people have forgotten them" but I'll have a story to tell him that's not true. Lovely to have met your happy smiley face. Sincerely, Noreen Kennedy
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
> Noreen Kennedy

Why Aren’t There Christians Praying for the Physically Dead to Be Raised?

Dear Pastors and Christian Friends,

As I consider my more than 40 years as a Christian, I do not recall ever seeing anyone at a funeral or at a hospital asking God to raise someone from the dead. Why is that? Have I just been in very barren places and praying for the dead to be raised is more plentiful than I know?

Did not Jesus stop a funeral procession at Nain (Luke 7:11-14)? The mother and the funeral party and definitely the dead man, had no idea that Jesus was passing by and there’s no indication in the scripture that they knew Jesus was capable of such a thing, and in His great compassion, He raised a young man from the dead, his mother’s only child.

Did not Jesus say, greater things than these ye shall do? “I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father,” John 14:12. Does the word of God not say “Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?”- Acts 26:10.

With God all things are possible! Why are we not drawing on the power of God for the physically dead to be raised?

Fear? Have we become so drunk with the world that we have taken in the images of horror movies that we are afraid to say to a lifeless body “rise in the name of Jesus!”?

These horror movies/images are they not an instrument of Satan to delay us from our destiny?

It’s time to Defy the Lie!

Are we not to snatch people from hell (Jude 1:23)? Praying for the dead to be raised is one way of razing hell. I woke up thinking about this as one of my pastor friends last night told me that a professional contact had been quickly cremated as part of a religious belief system. It gave me pause as I remembered another recent cremation. It’s as if the mind-set has been established to quickly get rid of the body, so just in case there are those who would dare believe and ask God to raise the dead, there would be no body to raise. But of course to God, a cremated body is no problem; He will call the body to be raised whether lost at sea in a “watery grave,” in fire, or wherever or however.

As we prepare to “Shine in 2009,” isn’t it time to begin drawing on the power of God to raise the dead, heal the sick and achieve that, which is impossible for man? We are crying out for jobs, and houses, and cars, for the economy to be fixed and our comfort. Are we crying out for the THINGS, more than the people—more than for souls to be saved? At the least as we cry out for the things, can we not at least cry out for all the souls involved so that they may be saved?

As we pray for the dead to be raised, sick to be healed, souls saved from hell and the things we desire, let’s start believing God at a level we’ve never considered. What does “thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven,” look like?

A major key to asking for the impossible is to deal with the day-to-day demands as “we are to love one another and the fact that the world will distinguish us by the love we have one for another.” Where is the love?

I won’t write a treatise, but I would like to ask all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to ask the Lord to equip us to accomplish “greater things than these ye shall do.” Let’s not drop praying for the dead to be raised, the physical as well as the spiritual.”

There are practical considerations as we prepare our minds to accept new horizons. We must deal with media. Here’s a link to a study, “Trojan Horses of Race” that says TV news creates racism and perpetuates it in our community:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=627381

When’s the last time you heard of a civic or religious group meeting with local TV executives making them accountable and asking at the least for more community shows and public service announcements to balance out the negative of the news department? When’s the last time you have heard of a group challenging a station’s license. They are making money off of public airwaves and our minds. They can be held accountable.

It’s time to create our own messages and distribute them via the Internet and broadcast media. It’s time to create opportunities for writers, producers, camera operators, editors, artists, etc. with the real world view-“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Personally, I want to live the possible 120 years (in divine health—“his eyes did not dim,” etc.) as described in the Bible and at the least the 80-85 years. I want to see our young people (as in Psalm 144:11-15) live long-lives and not take drive by shootings as the way it is. What would happen if we Christians prayed for a child in the street and he/she was raised from the dead?

“The kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent take it by force.” Isn’t it time we violently take people back from death. We won’t begin to do so unless we at least think about it. Get the images in our mind. “As a man thinketh, so is he.” Imagine it; prayer teams storming the hospitals, accident scenes, suicide-bombing incidents and wars, raising the dead in the name of Jesus! “You can’t die without Christ, raise up in the name of Jesus!” or "Rise up Christian in the Name of Jesus, You've still got work to do!" How awesome!

Feel free to pray for me to be raised from the dead, if I haven’t reached my 120 years! Feel free to pass this inquiry on to any believers in Christ. If you know of people praying for the dead to be raised in balance with all things that pertain to life in Christ and in the context of authentic Christianity, let me know.


With Love in Christ,

Jackie Wright

415.525.0410 (cell)