MLK Day: Love

It's hard to not to notice the juxtaposition of two significant things today (the designated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday and the Inauguration Day of Napoleon — you know, the one who wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada (but, he's just kidding, right?). 

As they always are, our times are surely in need of more love...than more 'greatness'.  May we have more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's kind:

 

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the "fight with fire' method ... is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community... Yes, love — which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one's enemies — is the solution.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maybe the posture of this prayer by Nadia Bolz-Weber would help, too.