Opportunity

Greetings!

Today, we celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

His birthday is one of the highlights of the African American community. Our pride in what he accomplished is one of the few things we can all agree on. He left us many things, but the one I wanted to highlight today is ...opportunity.

Dr. King fought to make sure that all Americans--no matter the nationality, would have an equal opportunity to choose the kind of life we wanted to live. He believed that everyone should have the right to live wherever they wanted, work wherever they wanted, and worship wherever they wanted, and he believed in it so much that he was willing to give up his life for it.

How many of us would do that? I know I find it hard to give up something as simple as watching television. I don't want that to be my legacy. I want to leave this earth having left my mark here. I want to use up every single gift, every single dream, and every single opportunity God has given me. At the end of my life, I don't want to regret anything.

I know that each of us has a specific purpose to fulfill on this earth. We were not all called to be civil rights activists, but we were all called to be something. We can't afford to be complacent about what is going on around us. We can't afford to wait until someone else does something. We can't afford to "do it tomorrow." We have to stand up today. We have to do what we can in our little part of the world now. Find that thing that you are passionate about, and pursue it. Don't let any opportunity pass you by...it could be the thing that will make all the difference in your life and in the world...

Until next time...

Be blessed