Today marks the day of an important man in our life--Dr. Martin Luther King. Even after his death, Dr. King serves as an historical example of living, serving, and even offering life for the life of others. His emphasis on civil rights has saved the hardships, toils, and even lives of many people, and has continued to do so. If the great Dr. King were to still be alive, he would have continued his fight for true civil rights--his fight for life in the midst of destructive humanity; Dr. King would have especially fought for the lives who had no voice. He would have fought for the unborn.
It can be easy to say that Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished his goal of providing civil rights for everyone, but we hardly ever ponder what he would have continued to do had he still been alive. We can get a good guess from his niece, Dr. Alveda King. Dr. Alveda King was living in Birmingham when her house was bombed by anti civil-rights members. After a few more incidents, including being jailed during the Chicago Open Housing Movement, she joined her uncle, Martin Luther King, in protesting civil rights abuses.
Dr. Alveda King knew her uncle through firsthand experience. She knew him as an uncle, colleague with a same goal, and as a great reverend and minister. With all these in mind, she knows that Dr. Martin Luther King would have kept up in his pursuit for civil rights for all members, including the unborn.
We should mark today as an examination point. We should ask ourselves how much we love God--God who gives us our humanity. We can seek this answer by looking at how many self-made barriers stand between our selves and members of other groups--members of a different race, gender, religion, social class, political class, and of the womb. How human are we?
Our purpose is to serve God, not ourselves. This we know from our conscience, from our desire to seek deep and meaningful relationships with purpose. This we know from our desire to be happy and at peace. Seek God and find God's love for others. Then, imitate God's love and spread it to others. Dr. Martin Luther King sought this and fought to break down the barriers between members of a different race, and we should continue his work on all the spectrum of civil rights. We should continue his work of finding our humanity through God.
