Hello to you. Today has been good. It started by my waking up in time to get to the ladies coffee time at Grace House. It was good to see everyone and get caught up. I took the opportunity to share about my cousin Heidi and we prayed for her and also I asked that we pray for this country and world. Especially Minneapolis and Iran. Also I am very concerned about what Trump is doing with Greenland and our European allies! What he wants isn’t what most Americans want. I feel like he’s acting like a spoiled child! We want affordable housing, food and healthcare! Every day I live in regret for having anything to do with this administration. I let myself be influenced and that won’t be happening come midterms!
Today was Martin Luther King Day – hopefully not our last! My grandparents would be so sad to see what is going on in our country. Both of them fought for civil rights. Here are some of his most famous quotes:
On Love & Hate
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
On Justice & Injustice
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- “A right delayed is a right denied.”
On Courage & Action
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
On Dreams & Reality
- “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
- “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.”
On Service & Humanity
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
- “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”
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