And Baltimore knows perseverance. If there is no wind, you have to row. The best days in life are not the perfect days. The best days are those when, out of failure and despair, you take on a new challenge. And you feel alive with the promise of what might be.
Today is such a day for our city.
And our city feels alive. Alive with the promise of what might be. Alive with the freedom of knowing that there is more that unites us than divides us, alive in the faith that there is no challenge so daunting that it cannot be overcome by the holy people of this great City. This is my prayer for our city. Baltimore, the greatest city in America.