For Martin Luther King Day

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, January 14, 2007

We hear the voice only in recordings now, in flickering images on the screen perhaps. Or in the fading recesses of memory. Yet, that voice still resounds. It still stirs. It still reminds of his dream, and of ours.

The music of those words remains, touching each of us in our deepest hopes: “We have a dream today.”

Like a stirring summons, his words flow over us still, reminding us each day how much yet remains to be done.

The man may be dead, and yet he still touches us deeply, each year at this time as his voice resounds, timeless through the ages. Here reminds us, still, that prophets always speak to us in the present tense.

May we pray that the passion for freedom still survives within us—deathless as freedom will be-- to be yet so stirred by this voice from one gone from the living all these years.

May we live to honor that spark of hope he ignited within us, so that we, too, can say: “We have a dream today.”

And breathe life again into that dream, and work for justice. And envision that new world as Dr. King saw it: free of the scourge hatred; free of the blight of poverty; free of the specter of ill-conceived war; free of all barriers that divide the children of God from one another.

May we breathe life into his dream by living out our own visions of peace and justice, with all our hearts, and all our minds, and all our souls. Amen.

jbs
1/13/07 - 1/14/07

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