Happy Dr. King Day!!!
The more I learn of this man, the more I am in awe of him. When I think of Dr. King, from the stories of his fight for the sanitation workers to his march on Washington, my heart SWELLS with what love I imagine him being filled with. A type of love I can relate to not only because of what he believed, but WHO he believed in...
I wonder... would Dr. King have had such an immense impact if he had not been a Jesus lover? I think of social activists today, some of the most amazing people I could ever have known, but the things they fight for are so very tangible, almost like "Of COURSE we need someone fighting to save the whales, eliminate AIDS, and make the global markets go green." But Dr. King... was a DREAMER.
Sometimes I forget our history. Certain dates and events are memory (so many history classes will do that to you), but to truly KNOW and understand something is to feel it and live it as much as you can without actually having BEEN there. To truly BELIEVE in what this man did, at a TIME where people not only lost their lives for standing up for equality, but were considered foolish for even thinking it were possible. I imagine being a little girl then. Hearing of something on the news that just didn't sit right, or maybe just out of curiosity I'd ask "why?" "Why do we use a separate door? Why can't we sit in the same theater?" to hear that dreadful response from someone older, wiser in year,"That's just the way things are".
I was listening to NPR today where some of Dr. King's closest friends and fellow activists were being interviewed. No matter WHAT the question they were asked, they all seemed to respond on his remarkable character. They talked about how humble he was in everything he did. Humble. As in Humility. It shakes my heart with beauty.
This man was the first to see a world as colorblind, acted on his faith in the love of his neighbors, and was killed for encouraging others to do the same. I have no doubts that what Dr. King knew of Christ's love fueled his fire, and his Dreams.
What a water-walker.
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