One of most impressive things to me about today's holiday is that MLK was first and foremost a Reverend and then a Doctor. I was reminded of that today as Abigail and I sat at the Blaze Studios for a filming of the Glenn Beck television program. Reverend King's niece, Alveda was on the set along with Bishop Jim Lowe of the Guiding Light Church in Birmingham, AL.
Today's taping looked at the history of MLK and unity and compassion he wanted for all people vs. the current media messages of hatred. Again, as always the answer to the current unrest lies in the peace and calm stillness in Christ.
It is a fascinating dynamic to watch Glenn, a former alcoholic, anger filled individual to talk scripture and Biblical principles in front of a huge TV audience with a well read Pastor. It was also incredible to listen to Ms. King who knew Dr. King and could speak first hand to the civil unrest at the time of his assassination. The living history stories are fascinating, I'm not sure our kids realize how fortunate they have been to have witnessed so much history through the eyes of actual witnesses.
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. Acts 17:26-27
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