“We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and in anticipation of the Inauguration of Barack Obama I offer this truth.
It does NOT matter what boat you or your ancestors came on. It does NOT matter if the boat was named Mayflower and arrived 389 years ago from England or if it was named Diego and arrived 28 years ago from Cuba.
It does NOT matter if they didn’t take a boat, but walked across the land bridge from Siberia over 10,000 years ago.
What matters is the boat you are in NOW. All I know is that I share that boat with you. I want it to be a peaceful, prosperous, creative, purposeful and fun journey. But above all I want it to be filled with love.
Read MLK, Jr’s quotes enough and you see that his guiding principle was, first and foremost, love.
Let’s let that be ours as well.
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