A salute to Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of his namesake day. Here is a well known piece from his pen which continues to resonate in our competitive world:
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
Our world needs servers. Individuals who see beyond themselves and their own needs so that the greater good of ‘justice, righteousness, and peace’ might be established.
Someone has said ‘That we need to move beyond the ‘i’ of ‘live’ to the ‘o’ of ‘love’—beyond the ego of ’I’ to the ’O’ (other) of ‘love’. It is this outward movement of service and love that M. L. King celebrated and that his message continues to celebrate today.
Good for America to acknowledge and applaud this prince of servants. May we say our ‘yes’ as we follow in the path of compassion and ‘otherness.’