MLK...

40 Years ago today America's greatest prophet, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. He was killed 1 year to the day after coming out against the Vietnam War while speaking at Riverside Church in New York. In that speech he connected the dots and confronted what he called the giant triplets of evil; materialism, racism and militarism and said; “Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak”.
Dr. King challenges all of us to take back the world from those “who possess power without compassion, might without morality and strength without sight.”
So I ask the same question that Genesis 37.19-21 asks and the one inscribed under the memorial stone at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. King was assassinated.
“They said one to another, behold, here cometh the dreamer. Let us slay him…and we shall see what will become of his dream”
What will become? A profound question to be asking this our last day of our Jackson experience. Then again maybe it is just the beginning of the rest of our lives lived with eyes and hearts that are wide open.

Mike
John 14.27