Seeing images like this, hearing his powerful voice, and reading summarized biographies -- as the years go by, the more the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. seems like this ethereal figure, when in reality-- in God's beauty-- he was just a man.  a King was just a man... like Peter, he 'obtained a faith of equal standing with ours'.

A man who was so great and has his own national holiday, shouldn't be remembered for just ONE day and then put back in the box for the next January.  I've found that the more I get to know King-- through his speeches, books, books about him and the time in which he live-- the more flawed, the more complex, the more amazing lessons I've learned from his life.

So don't wait to next January.  Start today.

FIF-recommended books & media to check out:

---MLK's Autobiography.  He wrote it.  'Nuff Said.

---Stanford University's King Institute. The ultimate digital resource to find all audio, speeches & sermons from MLK.

---America in the King Years: the Taylor Branch trilogy. Three books of unprecedented chronicling of MLK and the civil rights movement that surrounded him.

---A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings & Speeches of MLK. Great compilation of MLK's most famous and not-so-famous words.

FIF.