MARTIN LUTHER KING – so young, so wise and so ahead of his time
MLKs vision and activism was deep and wide. He worked for not just the rights of blacks but for all the poor.
He identified the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.
Just before his assassination, he was organising for a million to march and demand rights for workers – the Memphis sanitation workers would begin this movement against poverty.
He was non violent but he was strong and dignified in his approach and stature. He spoke of and nurtured the Beloved Community.
50 years on, where are we?
ALL of us, no matter country or race, have benefited from MLKs activism.
It’s tempting to say:
This is human nature. We never change.
But that would be a grave distortion of the truth. We do change but we also stay the same in some.ways.
We change when we have hope. We don’t when we lose hope. And one of the greatest attributes that we have as humans is HOPE. Without hope, we’d all be lost.
As a child, I was told in catechism class to have
FAITH
HOPE and
CHARITY
I see now why this is so important and have only in recent years really begun to learn this.
As long as we choose to keep our eye on what we want, what is good, what we truly desire, we’ll be able to leave behind what we don’t want, what hurts and harms us.
And, believe it or not, change begins with a desire and an intention, both entirely cost-free. They are our launching pad. Let’s not be shy about allowing desire and fashioning intention. Without them, we will languish in a lifeless drift.
https://thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy/
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