"My Favorite Leadership Quote..."

My Favorite Quote of Martin Luther King:

 "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." 

In my inbox reads,  "Leadership Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. by Joseph Lalonde. It felt right & compelling to read all 25 quotes from one of the greatest leaders in the African Civil Rights Movement. I read it unhurriedly; put my heart in every word in which he expressed unmistakably good, bold & passionate. 
Thereafter, I could only wish that I was born in that era where I'm holding a sign that says," Liberty for all mankind in my left hand and another sign that says," God loves all people," in my right hand. I know that sounds petty now but in reverence to Martin Luther King's Jr. day, I find his quotes are provocative, triumphant and final. 

I have a dream...He meant that dream.  And his dream became our dream. The only difference is that, in achieving our dream... there is hesitation when faced with adversity; we give ourselves mundane excuses for not chasing our dreams; we seek for constant "push" for direction and we seem so uninspired  that we lost that unquenchable fire for standing what is truth and what really counts in our lives. 
The dream is still there but chained to the circumstances we have. We might get up from falling from everyday trappings but we don't challenge ourselves enough. With the bombastic hit of "electronic gadgets" in our lives, our critical thinking in building relationships is less admirable. We easily grow impatient and in return resort to amicable solutions. Even our conversations have become infused electronically. We also used to read every word when we read a book, an article or any reading material. Now we don't. We scan them. We just read what "hook" us, usually that happens in the first and second sentences of a paragraph. Worst, if we don't like the title, we assume the rest of the blog or a story is time consuming; in short, not worth reading. But these are premises conduit to how strong we want something done in perils of our aspirations...

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says in his quote, " When we become silent about things that mater, our lives begin to end." Not doing anything about something that is important life is just merely existence. We stay afloat with the dictation of what's trending, of what's hot and we better strike it while the iron is hot. So we all become statistic. I 'm furious at myself when I allow myself to be a by-product of my surroundings and not a as a result of  honorable principles and values we once upheld so high at home in our hearts. Why is that?

It irks me when a famous person says something about where he or she stands on morality, Christian family values and then retracts, modifies his/her statement the next day or a a few hours after he/she realized  that "ratings" equate money. How convenient is that for them? If that's what matters to them--maintaining their spot on magazine covers, then, they better learn how to bridle their tongue before using Facebook, Twitter or other social networks as their platform.

The bigger picture in this quote is "sounding off the alarm" not only for yourself but to the multitudes. It won't click if what you stand for reverberates a few...or just yourself. Your dream should echo how you may serve humanity and most of how all these things that are important to you are also God's vision for your life. If they are, there is no doubt  that you reflect Martin Luther King's  passion for the mountaintop.

Thanks for reading and you guys take care.
God Bless as always.