Remembering MLK Jr.

I shared Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech a few years ago with some elementary school students. I’m sure these students missed many of the essential themes in the speech, but a few took notes, including this:

Martin Luther is very kind and generous and he is very important. He has changed many lives. “I have a dream.”

Part of me wanted to emphasize more of the critical themes for this young lady, or at least distinguish him from the sixteenth-century theologian, but I did not. Maybe this was enough. Maybe it’s precisely what she needed.

Today is a good day to remember the kind, generous, and important man, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe you could take some time to look at his “I Have a Dream” speech or his Letter from Birmingham Jail.