One Road

"He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: it's springs were at every doorstep and every path was it's tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.'"
Frodo quoting Bilbo Baggins

The Lord of the Rings

When you step outside today, where will your path lead you?

Which paths will you follow? Those that are safe, secure and boring -- or will you go off the beaten path and do something new and different? Will you see the cross lying beside the road and pick it up, accepting your mandate, or will you leave it lying there, thinking that someone else needs to handle that chore?

Will you plant good seeds, anticipating the harvest?

What good deeds will you do today?

Purpose

"If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish."

Marian Anderson

On this day in 1939, Marian Anderson, African-American opera singer, performed at the Lincoln Memorial. She couldn't sing at Constitution Hall because she was not white.

On January 7, 1955, Ms Anderson became the first Black American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. According to Times magazine, here were seven curtain calls.

Modern American Poetry: About Marian Anderson and Her Lincoln Memorial Concert

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/taggard/anderson.htm

The Glory of Christianity

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

William Blake

RIP Rev. King

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was murdered while following his God-given belief that all men truly are created equal. Because of Rev. Dr. King and his fellow fighters in the battle for Civil Rights, we can live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, eat in the same restaurants, even marry our Brother or Sister of Color. The battle is not over, but his participation ended on April 4, 1968.

RIP Rev. King. I know that the Lord welcomed you Home, saying "Well done, my child. Well done."