The King Dreams...

What would life be like today if Martin Luther King had failed to share his dream with the world? His boldness cost him his life, because some people wanted things to remain as they were, but it was his voice that changed the course of history in America...

Today, his dream lives... a dream of vision and hope for all races and equality for both men and women... Today, little white children and little black children can walk together... Today, children of different races can attend the same school... Today, people of different races can share the same bus... Today, people of different races can eat in the same restaurant... Today, men and women have the right to vote...

Dr. Martin Luther King... It took but one voice to make a difference...

When I was a little girl, the kids at school would laugh at me, because I tried to learn... "Why are you trying so hard? You're a girl. Girls don't wear pants. Girls don't play sports. Girls don't go to college. Girls aren't allowed to work. This is a man's world. A girl's life is just to get married and to make sure that her husband is taken care of."  

Those words continue to ring in my ears... It made me angry. It made me rebel, but I gave in to their negativity... If I had listened to my gut, I would have completed school as validictorian... I still regret that to this day...

I was a little girl who wanted more... When I went to college, I wanted to study art... I wanted to become an artist. I had visions of the paintings that I would make, but my teacher discouraged me, because I was a girl... It's not unusual that I completed college with a degree in Criminal Justice, because that is the kind of degree that a man would get but it is also a far cry from becoming an artist...

I am so grateful that I was able to witness this little piece of history, but even more important than that is that I am a part of this history... I was not only the first person in my family to graduate from college, but I was also the first woman in my family to graduate from college, and my daughter was the second... I was a single-parent who achieved what people kept telling me was impossible...

So where do you find the most dreams? The place where you will find the most dreams is in the cemetery... People with so many dreams... so many dreams that were destroyed... so many dreams that never came to be...

There are so many people in the world who live to destroy your dreams... They work almost like magic to put doubt into your thoughts... "What you thinking?! That's impossible! What makes you think you can do it? What makes you think God can do it?! What does faith have to do with it?!" 

Doubt brings about fear and fears can paralyze and put an end to your dreams... We go through life thinking we cannot do it... We go through life giving in to their thoughts that our dreams are impossible... We doubt ... We lose faith... We stop working towards our dreams... We stop believing in the beauty of our dreams... and in the process, we lose ourselves...

Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, synical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people...

I am a dreamer... I am alone, because I have yet to find someone who is a dreamer like me... I look for people who have something to say... I look for people of wisdom... I look for people who will build me up... I look for people who will celebrate my victories and not be critical or jealous if I should succeed...

Dare to Believe... Dare to Dream...

With God, all things are possible...

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