MLK Day: How It Stands For Us All

The past is transitory. It’s hard to place any thought on the past and fathom it as the real, true happening to be equated to this very moment. It’s due to growing and changing as a people, as nations, at an alarming rate. However, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his day of celebration next Monday is a past historical remembrance of a Great Soul where no doubt real changes and shifts in consciousness took place to bring us to a time to where, even not so in the distant past that it was, is hard to believe such hate ever occurred.

America has made countless moral mistakes in it’s past and current, through slavery, American-Japanese concentration camps, unnecessary wars, segregation, the treatment of Native Americans, and most recently, it’s disconnected spending in Government, banking systems, and their corporate conglomerates with using the very people who make it run.

1966. Martin Luther King Jr., along with his children, addresses a crowd.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of the people, beyond his race. He stood up at a time in the name of God in Peace and Love on a topic that alarms us just to think about it ever existing. It shows how far we’ve come, and how much his work matters. Dr. King sought justice for a people being unjustly viewed and ruled by a system due to the color of their skin. In today’s issues by removing the skin color and adding your bank statement, you’ll find the universal Truth that Dr. King stood up for with us all.

He was a man of awareness. A clear voice and heart, and when he yelled, “I have a dream…” we listened, because God spoke through his very core.

At Manchester Wood, we open the discussion on Martin Luther King, Jr. a little shy of a week from this day of celebration to open the conversation. What this man stood for, and how can we continue to apply it today?

We’re growing as a nation, we as a people are becoming more aware, through shopping American Made products, occupying our hearts in demonstration for a brighter future, and growing to an age of empowerment.

I believe Dr. King would be proud, and would ask us to keep having dreams for a brighter day for all of God’s inhabitants.

God bless you Dr. King, and God bless the consumers of our justly made American furniture, and God bless the power coming to the American people.

May our past escape us, and our future amaze us!

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: A Great Change in Washington

This past Monday something of great significance occurred.

Although most would find the earthquake as the major news citing this week, for many though, the real earthquake of significance was the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which opened Monday morning.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Memorial in Washington, DC

It’s a quiet shake in the arrangement of Washington’s National Mall where a person not of political agenda, but of a spiritual rising took a seat in-between the Nation’s two most historically prominent elite.

“From a geometrical standpoint it’s on a direct line between the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. The brains and essence of our country (Thomas Jefferson), and Abe Lincoln, the greater uniter,” said Bill Line, spokesman for the National Park Service in an interview with Reuters.

I find it quite comforting that Dr. King sits nestled on the grounds of our memorialized fore fathers, whom outlined a new land that’s constantly sought reform from its vastly evolving people.

To bring a spiritual leader, one who fought for basic civil rights, with no party affiliation, corporate lobbyists in his ear, Martin Luther King Jr. continually shows the American people what to stand up for, whether it is race, or justice of another kind.

Our country still fights racism, but that battle seems surely won as the years pass, the greatest representation Dr. King shows today (and then), that having a dream and seeing it fulfilled has endless possibility with the power residing in the human spirit.

Today our fight in America remains one of justice, mainly between Washington politics and “the people” who work hard in its land trying to survive and wish for better days in domestic economic success.

It’s refreshing to know a man of such caliber and freedom sits at our Nation’s epicenter, and as he says in this video below, we must not worry, the promised land continues to become more present.

We thank you Dr. King, your lessons remain current, even as the times change.