For the past few days I feel as though God has been urging me to have a heart of unity. I've read it in scripture and also that seems to be the message that I've gotten from the life of Coretta Scott King. I don't aim to be a Mrs. King or anyone great in the public eye, but I do feel like I'm supposed to fight for something. I realize that somewhere in between childhood and adulthood I've become a complacent pessimist. I don't fight any fight because I feel like they're all hopeless... and if there is supposed to be social change, we can't have attitudes like that. There doesn't always have to be large numbers of poor, hungry, uneducated, oppressed people. If more people would be optimistic and willing to fight for human rights such as these I believe there would be a wider margin of hope. Really though, all of this reflection on life has me really thinking about and wanting to seek my life's purpose. How does what I feel God has called me to do fit in with the call for unity and love? How can I affect social change in whatever career I end up in? It would be easy for someone to dismiss how I feel now as one of my passionate, short-lived whims of inspiration but I know this goes deeper... but that's enough talking...
"A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
I was born by the river
In a little tent, and o
just like that river
I've been running ever since
It's been a long long time coming, but I know
A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living
but I'm afraid to die
'cause I don't know what's up there
beyond the sky,
It's been a long time coming, but I know
A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
(I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep tellin me
don't hang around)
It's been a long time coming, but I know
A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
Then I go to my brother
and I say brother help me please
But he wind up knocking me
back down on my knees
There have been times that I thought
I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long time, but I know
A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
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