Photo Credit: Updates from the road
A dream, 50 years later
Today is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s world-changing “I have a dream speech.” And I wanted to take a small moment to remind us that he was one man with a dream… look what one man was able to do with his dream… the impact one man created on all of us.
It’s truly amazing.
And it all started with a dream. The speech came later. But Dr. King was driven by something bigger. As a pastor he was driven by a God. But as a man, he was driven by the dream in his heart. He didn’t have to speak outside of his own church, but he chose to. He didn’t have to think beyond his own family or his own lifetime, but his heart called him to look further.
Dreams are important.
It can be easy to start downplaying dreams. Seeing them as fluff or insignificant. Dreams aren’t real. They’re the things we think about when work sucks or the kids are out of control. They’re the things we put off until someday because right now there’s real work that needs to be done.
But what if, Dr. King had put off his dream until someday? What would be different in our world today?
Continue reading “I have a dream.”