The Content of Our Characters

Posted on | January 20, 2009 | No Comments

Yesterday, the boys and I did a Martin Luther King study and listened to his most: “I Have a Dream.” Here are some of the more memorable lines:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”*

My J was asking “why does he keep saying the same thing over and over and over? Why does he have to say he has a dream?”

I had to explain to him that when you really mean something, you often repeat  it to make sure people hear it and remember it. Kinda like how mom and dad often have to repeat a lot of instructions.

;)

*Isaiah 40:4-5

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