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\"Drmartinlutherkingjr\"<\/a>
\n<\/span> This morning, Carol
\nFrame Matthews sent around this quote from Matthew Fox\u2019s book <\/span>Creativity<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe story is
\ntold of Martin Luther King Junior\u2019s bringing a proposition to his board of
\ntwenty-two person.\u00a0 The proposition was about his coming out publicly
\nagainst the Vietnam War.\u00a0 The board was adamantly against it.\u00a0 They
\nhad enough troubles already.\u00a0 Their financial situation was
\ntottering.\u00a0 They did not need another huge controversy to add to the other
\nissues they were wrestling with and the other fires they were trying to
\ncontain.\u00a0 At the board meeting the vote was twenty-one to one NOT to come
\nout against the war.\u00a0 The next day Dr. King held a press conference in
\nwhich he announced his opposition to the war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So I was inspired
\nto track down what this notorious war was teaching Martin, whose birth we
\ncelebrate today! On April 4, 1967, the day my grandmother Miriam<\/a> celebrated her
\n66th<\/sup> birthday, in New York City\u2019s Riverside Church, Dr. King said:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u2026We are called to play the Good
\nSamaritan on life\u2019s roadside . . . but one day we must come to see that the
\nwhole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be
\nconstantly beaten and robbed. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a
\nbeggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be
\nrepaved\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Toward the end of
\nthe speech, MLK said \u2013 \u201cWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.
\nWe are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum
\nof life and history there is such a thing as being too late… \u201cThe moving finger writes, and having writ moves on\u2026\u201d
\nWe still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent
\nco-annihilation.<\/em><\/p>\n

~
\n\u201c<\/em>Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence<\/a><\/em>,\u201d Martin Luther King Jr.;one
\nof MLK\u2019s least publicized speeches<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Martin-luther-king2\"<\/a>
\n<\/span>\u00a0In celebration of this
\nMartin Luther King Junior Day the day before an history-making inauguration, let
\nme spill my spiritual guts on the page for you. Intestines meander, so this may
\ntoo, but the destination is clear. If you get no farther than this, you\u2019ve
\nalready read the most inspiring and challenging words!<\/p>\n

What do these words
\nmean to me? Well, I am deeply challenged by three questions. Related to those,
\nI do have one clear intention, but I need so much more clarity and ask for your
\nhelp. I\u2019ll try to do the same for you if you merely ask me.\u00a0 Okay, here goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The \u201ctide in the affairs of men\u201d does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: \u201cToo late.\u201d There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. \u201cThe moving finger writes, and having writ moves on\u2026\u201d We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"yoast_head":"\nMLK, intestines, and big questions - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2009\/01\/19\/mlk-intestines-and-big-questions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MLK, intestines, and big questions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. 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