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I'm listening to a podcast of " Speaking of Faith ", it's the Jimmy Carter episode which includes recordings of some of his Sunday School classes. In one he relates working with this Cuban-American preacher who said: There should be two great loves in your life; the love a God and the love of the person in front of you.

Happy MLK Day. It's taken me a long time to understand MLK, not that I do completely but I now seem him as more than the icon of a specific place and time. To honor his memory and work we must do our best to love ourselves (at least accept ourselves) and in turn we must accept others as equal and we must WORK to correct what we see as wrong. As simple as it is it is so far from simple but we all must try. If we try we will honor all those who came before us. See more MLK

My mother would've been 82 yrs old today. She died two weeks before her 60th birthday. Which means for the last four years I have lived longer without my mother than I did with. I miss her.