The lion does not roar at random

Today is the 93rd anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. King's brief life: today's crises, an echo. .

Forgiveness, healing, and justice are not the building blocks of some spiritual obstacle course. They are the necessary requirements for a basic shared life. Peacemaking and reconciliation are not some kind of box seat tickets to heaven. They are the price of peoplehood. They express the truth at the heart of Creation, a truth shared in each unfolding moment-by-moment. – after Richard Rohr.