Sheep & Goats

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When I think of this National Holiday, when school is not in session, I start to wonder what we are doing as a nation to recognize the late "American Prophet." I think Hy-Vee had a one-day sale and I saw a commercial about some kind of liquidation sale for another store.  I had the day off, but realized it after I had been in the office for two hours. Whoops!

I don't understand this mentality. First of all, I think school should be in session and Martin Luther King remembered. Every day Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Hungarian, what have you, students sit together in class and learn their lessons. Why not take one day out of the year to have these students really look at each other and really see what is there, let them see that at one point in our American History, they would not have been sitting together in the same classroom, the same building. Many of them would not have the opportunity to know each other or understand cultural differences.

Today, my devotional was Matthew 25:31-46. Here the Lord separates the righteous from the wicked, those who have reached out to those in need and to those who have not. One group goes to Heaven, the other group goes to HAIDES!!!!!

I look at Martin Luther King day and I see that we as a nation are not commemorating him or being of service to God really in an appropriate manner. Where is the recognition that the oppressed were able to be redeemed through their faith in each other, in God, and for some reason, humanity? We are no longer helping each other or lifting each other up in times of need. We have become complacent. I think Martin Luther King day should be a day of real remembrance, a day when we are in service to one another. Just taking one day out of the year could un-mask the ugliness that still exists in the world. When we are working together, we are working towards a goal of peace. Let us remember that.