Almost prophetically, in this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech he thanks his audience for coming despite a storm warning. That storm is among us today!
There have always been those wise and courageous ones who lift us up out of our dispirited struggle in a world of war desperately in pursuit of peace. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was such a person. His dream ignited a national and global dream for peace.
Dr. King’s vision is timeless. It still speaks, leads, inspires and guides us forward, calling us to unity. He called us, as he was called, to dream a much bigger dream for our lives, our communities, our nation, and our world.
Among Dr. King’s closest friends were people like Thich Nhat Hanh who inspired him to help shoulder his banner for peace. They ignited a passionate vision for peace and global healing that continues today among those who hold a lighted lamp in these dark days.
While our nation is a house divided against itself, polarized by strongly held views which are sometimes incomprehensible to the opposing side, NOW would be a great time to begin healing that divide, rebuilding our nation based on Dr. King’s dream and step together into our brighter future strengthened by our unity as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ALL.
Together! We can do this! Today! We must do this!
If we honor our nation’s founders who courageously stood up against an oppressive empire only a couple short centuries ago, who bequeathed to us a responsibility to protect and preserve their dream of a free nation, one for which they fought and died, we must heal the enemy within our borders, and mend our own divisiveness.
Sadly, there are those in our government who are leading us astray, pulling us further apart by fanning the flames of division. We need to stand together in opposition to anything that divides us or attempts to defeat us. We are strong, and even stronger united together.
Over the years, we have stood up against oppression as we identified it in our midst in the many forms it showed up and weeded it out. We seemed to find the strength, vision, and courage to come together to preserve the soul of our nation.
Today, together, we must dream of a reUnited States, and mend the great and terrible divide that is tearing us apart.
In honor of the late Dr. King, we must put our differences aside. The list of what can divide us is long, insidious, and wicked (political, religious, ethnic, economic).
There is a much bigger dream awaiting us, if we can stand up against the enemy within our nation that seeks to destroy us, even seducing us to combat our brothers and sisters with whom we share this precious country. There are many more important things we as a nation can do for ourselves and the world than fight a civil war of the heart here. Let’s hold Dr. King’s dream closer to our hearts and have the courage to face down whatever attempts to divide us.
The future of our nation is in our hands.
