Martin Luther King Jr.
January 18, 2022
Today we remember Martin Luther King: a man who brought hope to people of color. He personified Acts 5: 29. “We must obey God rather than human beings.” He lived his faith, lead marches, was arrested and jailed, and spoke God’s truth about the injustice of his time.
He wrote “We will have to repent in this generation the hateful words and actions of the bad people and the appalling silence of the good people.” From “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963.
I ask myself decades later, am I silent when I can speak?
He dreamed that his children would live not judged by the color of their skin, but by their character. He would be 90 years old today.
My friends, we still have a long way to go.