Living With Chronic Pain – Martin Luther King Day
Because our country celebrates Martin Luther King today, it’s also fitting to remember the realities of this historic occasion.
As with most monumental achievements when the odds seem nearly impossible, acting upon divine inspiration to accomplish something greater than what man can do on his own defined the embodiment of Dr. King.
Unity doesn’t happen on its own. Breaking down the graveyard mentality of racism took tremendous courage; but more importantly, it took an immeasurable amount of faith in God. And in the case of this civil rights leader, this is exactly the valuable lesson he left behind for this multi-cultural nation to learn.
In order to cope with overwhelming battles, like the ones we face presently, we can certainly learn from the example of Dr. King. In a nutshell, he exhibited the ability to really live, to really believe in the right arm of God that reaches deep down into the soul of man, giving him a renewed spirit of love and goodness. It was from this pool of hope that Dr. King encouraged others to draw from…for the alternative purported hatred and death.
We cannot solve all of our problems from multi-tiered strategies or from the mere efforts of our newly elected President. Like Dr. King, we must all do our part, laying aside prejudices for the common good of man, person to person, community to community, state to state, country to country… From the depths of unity, we can expand our borders of transformation and go further than ever imagined. This is what Dr. King left us as his legacy – an opportunity to live out dreams bigger than ourselves which would benefit the whole instead of the one.
