Seminole County, FL, Commission Meeting
25 January 2022
Maggie Wang (195 words)

Thank you, Chairman Constantine, Commissioners, and staff, for this opportunity to offer an invocation.

As leaders you are not called to be a lone beacon on a hill for others to simply follow.

Rather, you are meant to work together for all our benefit, and so that you might help others also shine along with you.

This morning we will hear the Commission’s proclamation of Black History month for Seminole County.

With that in mind, let us embody the words of a Central Floridian, author, and freethinker, Zora Neale Hurston, who said “There is nothing to make you like other human beings, so much as doing things for them.”

This morning, may we recognize and abandon the familiar attitudes and too common practices that do not serve the whole.

May we appreciate each and every voice that enters the chamber with hearts and minds open.

May we dream and design a bold future for the county where all voices are heard and everyone is uplifted up at their time of need.

And may we work together with honesty and integrity, guided by rational thought and critical thinking with a sense of shared responsibility.

Thank you.