MESSAGE #51 - FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968):

“Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral . . . I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long . . . Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize . . . Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards . . . I’d like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I’d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody . . .

“Say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. That I was a drum major for righteousness.

“And all of the other shallow things will not matter.

“I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.

“BUT I JUST WANT TO LEAVE A COMMITTED LIFE BEHIND.”

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Nothing else needs to be said.

Rob Gilbert