Today is Martin Luther King Day. MLK once said, “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Being peaceful is much more difficult than being violent or angry. How many of you have had a hard time biting your tongue from time to time? You’ve had to restrain yourself, teach yourself to breathe, and bring yourself back to a state of calm. I can say this because I struggle with this as well. I mostly struggle with it in relationships, I confess. It has caused a rift that only I can mend.
Last night my partner reminded me to be grateful. To practice Gratitude, instead of focusing on the small things that bother me. Sometimes those small things seem so huge, they seem like deal breakers, and that there is no going back. I think that we (I) feel this way because we have forgotten the tools of forgiveness. In todays society we are constantly bombarded with all of the bad that surrounds us, that we forget about the good that is right in front of us. This goes for our nation as well. We have a great nation that is still growing and learning. We’re working out the bugs.
Forgiveness comes with work. It means that we are going to have to forgive ourselves first and then patch up our past. Fix what we couldn’t fix. Fix the stains of our past. We need to truly be ‘We The People’, not just ‘Some of the People’.
We have communities that struggle. Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White. It’s time for us to become color blind. It’s time for us to do as the bible states,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Because we are all one. We had an unwritten motto in the Marines. It was,
“You are only as strong as your weakest link.”
That means taking the weakest amongst us, not in physical strength alone but in; Education, Economic, and Spiritual.
Join me today to learn how we can do this together and lift each and every person up. See their strengths instead of their weaknesses.
Peace!
D
