One of my favourite poets is Emily Dickinson. The world as seen through her eyes in this poem is relevant today to those of us who seek to oppose the madness that is afoot in our supposedly reasonable culture.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -August 21, 2014
As a child growing up in a W.A.S.P. community in south-western Ontario, I was in awe of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and those that joined him in the civil rights movement. To stand up against such incredible injustice and to do it with such dignity, to carry a vision of what can be in the face of such ugliness...that inspired me, lifted me, opened my eyes to the expansive nature of the human spirit in all its fighting glory.
One of my favourite M.L.K. quotes is...
True peace is not merely the absence of tension. It is the presence of justice.
With this in mind, how then do we become peacemakers?
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