Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
In case you find yourself drifting into a sentimental state of contentment by hearing another reading of Dr. King's great "I Have a Dream" speech, try reading or listening to his last Sunday sermon, delivered in an Episcopal Cathedral four days before his assassination.
Click the following link to read and/or hear the sermon, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution," delivered by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Washington Cathedral on March 31, 1968.
It expresses the depth and breadth of Dr. King's message, including but moving beyond racism, and prophetically calling America and the world to accountability. Let us take this sermon to heart, examine our conscience, and ask ourselves, "where do we go from here?"
Stone carving of Dr. King in the Pulpit of Washington National Cathedral
Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Posted by: red bottom sole | 10/20/2011 at 03:42 AM
Moving to racism, and prophetically called America and the world of responsibility.
Posted by: מכשירי שמיעה | 10/19/2011 at 04:58 AM
Thank you for the link to King's sermon. I rather doubt that St Francis had 21st-century computers in mind when he asked us to pray to be a channel/instrument. A member of Good Shepherd has passed on to me the link to King's sermon, and I have passed it on to others. So St Francis was prescient, no?
Posted by: James Bittner | 01/18/2011 at 07:51 PM