The Mountaintop View

To honor the past, present, and future of Wisdom & Love & needed Growth and Change on planet Earth - I am going to listen to Martin Luther King Jr’s speech “I’ve been to the mountaintop”. I invite you to listen to it, too.

On April 3, 1968, MLK said “We’ve got some difficult days ahead… but it really doesn’t matter with me now… because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land”. MLK said “I may not get there with you…” and the next day, he was taken from his body. He said “…we’ve got to stay together” - for the sake of each other’s welfare - in order to get to the mountaintop view. I think what MLK was saying is, we’ve got to come together, and then remain in solidarity together, in order to get to a future where every one is respected, where every thing is understood as sacred.

We’ve got work to do. We’ve got conscious breathing to do! We’ve got coming together to do.

When I think of MLK not being here, I cry. I’ve been doing that since I was young. I was 9-years-old in 1968. I cry because… he did so much, and then, he couldn’t do more. Or so I thought. My spiritual belief system has evolved since then. MLK may have left this planet, but - I believe he is with us, and I believe he is still helping us.

Whether or not you believe in this statement from a Spiritual perspective, you probably believe in inspiration. I feel MLK alive in me when I listen to him speak. It doesn’t matter that it’s from a taped, distant moment from history. Listening to that man speak… I feel inspired. Every time. Even now. I feel inspired to care. I feel inspired to use my own tongue to wage peace. I feel inspired to write. I feel inspired to love.

That’s powerful.

So now, having listened to MLK’s speech (again), I’m going to meditate, and contemplate what the world looks like from my mountaintop. I’m gonna contemplate how we can get there. together. And what I can do to help. I invite you to do that, too.