Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Dream on.

Myself, I have never been much of a dreamer. It's in my nature to just take things as they are and just deal with them I guess. Kind of like that ole' comic strip, I could be considered as a so called "Plugger." I plug along, going with the flow for the most part.

Thank God everyone is not like me. This world we live in needs dreamers in the worst way. Those who believe that things need to change and that they can change. Those that grab hold of a dream and then work to see them come true. And as they work toward that dream, they sometimes inspire others to work with them.

For example, Martin Luther King was such a dreamer. He not only had a dream, but he put work clothes on it. His "I have a dream" speech is all the evidence we need to know what his dream was.

A worthy dream indeed. So much of a worthy dream that our nation celebrates not only the life of the man tomorrow, but we celebrate his dream as well. The dream of how things should be.
One reoccurring theme in some of the commentary that I read this morning concerning Martin Luther King is that he never saw his dream come true. That he died before much progress was made towards it. Or that his dream will never be realized here or any where else. To that, I must disagree. Totally disagree. I argue that the good doctor saw every bit of that worthy dream come true.

That is if he went to heaven like I think he did. And if you think about it, even if he didn't. He dreamed of a world where people were judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. God promises that much to each and every one of us.

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