Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
"Your young men shall have visions; your old men shall dream dreams." Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17
"Without a vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18
Our God wants us to be forward-looking. He wants us to have an eye to the future. Dr. King, one of the great Civil Rights leaders of the last century, based his dream on what he knew of God, on what he knew was stated clearly in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, "all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
May we embrace that dream still today. May we pursue it with the
fervor of Dr. King. May we bequeath it to our children and to their
children, for if we fail to make the dream a reality, we will relegate
future generations to the nightmare of division and strife.
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