Reflections on Dr. King

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. actively spent his life in work that leaves him to be a legacy for this country and I see him, in both reality and metaphor, as a powerful staff that changed the future course of the surging river that is our country's history - creating new channels and direction for the water as it courses on. A person of political, religious and cultural clout in a time where he was not in the privledge of the law and civil rights, he wrote, spoke and organized for racial equality, economic justice, and peace and changed the world through word and action.

What if all those Greats who were shot and killed approximately half a century ago had lived? Where would the rest of their lives have taken us? I have not the answers. Yet we are here. One of them suggested being the change we seek to see in this world. Our world still needs changed - we can be the promise-seekers - we can change what wrongs through our words and actions.