Greetings!
I've learned a lot about Martin Luther King Jr. over the years. I know that he believed with every fiber of his being that a peaceful solution to bigotry and prejudice was God's plan and the only way to heal the great injustice that his race was enduring.
Until I was 14 years old, when my family moved to California, we lived in the deep South. I didn't know it then but I was a bigot. I have childhood memories of misguided superiority because I didn't have to ride in the back of the bus on the way to school like the colored people did. I have memories of Blacks not being able to eat in certain restaurants. I remember one time as a little boy wetting my pants because the "white only" restroom was occupied and I wouldn't use the "colored" restroom at a gas station. There were many memories some of them to embarrassing to recall.
I look back on all these memories now as blessings in my life because they are in such stark contrast to what I know to be true today, so many years latter. They serve as reminders to me of how easy it is to succumb to wrong thinking and how easily our paradigms are created.
Dr. King knew the power of forgiveness. He knew that unforgiveness creates a festering wound that will never heal and holds us in bondage to the one who wounded us. He knew that forgiveness allows us to move on to become the people that God created us to be. Dr. King reminded himself and his followers of this every time he talked about his dream of equality and freedom.
So on Monday, recall fondly the man who waved the banner for freedom for all of us. He knew that regardless of our race, we would not know true freedom until we knew true forgiveness.
Have a wonderful weekend. I love you all.
Don
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