4 Ways to Think Deeply about Martin Luther King Jr. as we celebrate his birthday: 1. How do you practice nonviolence in your life? “King operated from non-violence but was not afraid of anger.” 2. What do you do with unfairness that you perceive? “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies… A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.”--MLK 3. Do you feel interconnectedness with others in your life? “Love is where our interconnectivity expresses our caring. Power is the ability to realize our dreams.”--MLK So why is this so radical? asks john a. powell. What this suggests is that even if we disagree, even if someone oppresses us, we remain connected. That no one is outside of the circle of human concern and that must be reflected in our structures, stories and ourselves. It calls for a strategy, a movement to give expression to fairness without an enemy. 4. What moves you the most in your spiritual life? “Power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic,” MLK said. Powell writes, maybe what made King most radical, and at the same time most effective, was in bringing together social justice and spirituality.
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