And All Flesh Shall See It Together!
There are times that are different from every other time... There are days that are different from the every day... There are human beings that are different from every other human being.
On this day we remember one of those times, hold up one of those days, and honor one of those human beings.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a Baptist preacher (though he was very much that), he was not just a leader for a disenfranchised and abused segment of our society (though he was that as well). He was... and is... an exemplar, an exceptional, even while ordinary, human being who stepped into his time, took on the mantel he was given and walked out to change the world.
This is what we remember today. This is what we hold to, and hope to yet become.
Rev. King did indeed have a dream, a dream of a "Beloved Community" where people might really be what we are meant to be and fully capable of becoming. Even though we are still struggling to become that, and even though there are many who would STILL keep us back from that greatness and that possibility. This day represents a time when we indeed CAN "become the change we want to see in the world."
Martin Luther King did it... SO can we... STILL.
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