Monday, January 15, 2007

Hands together

President Bush has issued his "New Way Forward" in Iraq. It is an idea that seeks more destruction, more killing, more debt, more inhumanity, and more of the same writ larger.

I hope humanity does not follow this apostle of violence, this decider of doom, this false prophet of the apocalypse.

There is an old Chinese proverb which says that if you do not change your direction you will go where you are headed.

Well, where are we headed in this moment?

Are we headed for a world of violent conflict or a world of peaceful coexistence?

Are we headed for a world of economic justice or economic injustice?

Are we headed for a world that meets the needs of the least among us, or a world that is blind to suffering?

Are we headed for a world that seeks gold or the golden rule?

Where are we headed?

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. day of remembrance let us not simply recall his past accomplishments out of habit, but rather revive his live dream for humanity out of hope. Let us revive his work and his philosophy and his dream.

The person in our time which most closely resembles Dr. King in spirit is a white Congressman from Ohio named Dennis Kucinich. If you wish to see how far we are from Martin's dream, watch this speech by Dennis and feel just how many obstacles to his message are erected in your own heart and your own mind to his way forward:

A new dreamer

Where are we headed when such a dreamer with such a message is marginalized by cynicism in our own hearts?

Is it towards that mountaintop that Martin saw?

Go see and hear Dennis speak if you get the chance. You've got to feel his presence to recognize the truth of this, that Martin's dream is not dead and neither is the dreamer.

But a dream needs believers to become reality.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

Charles Darwin