Good Morning, God,
Lord, unfortunately, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is often associated with prejudice, violence, discrimination - all those words that fan the flames of the same.
But, just as often, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was simply, but eloquently, picking up on and orating on your own words from your Word. For example, Lord, he spoke and said, "An individual has not started living until he or she can rise above the narrow confines of his or her individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Lord, doesn't this echo your word of looking up and around, telling ourselves that we should "love you (looking up) with all of who we are and love our neighbors (looking around) as we love ourselves"?
Perhaps today, as we consider the very important positive influence Rev. martin Luther King, Jr., had on our society as we know it today, we can seek to also make differences in biblical ways where we are - even so no one else has to die for any of the freedoms we so enjoy: Life in the fullest, Liberty without shackles, and the Pursuit of Happiness without the roadblocks of race, creed, sex, and ignorance, for example, to name just a few.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
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