Death Of Illusions

By now, you would notice that I enjoy reading a lot. Among the different category of books, I treasure reading autobiographies (but not that much on biographies). Then, Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the person I respect and adore. He did not really write an autobiography, but his wife provided the collections of his writings, recordings, and documentary materials to Clayborne Carson and to compose and edit into a book which named as An Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are many paragraphs which touched my heart, especially when you imagine you were in the same place as him and need to endure the challenges (including life threatened incidents) and threats were made against not only him, but his family and kids.

On 15th September, 1963, four young black girls were killed (by explosion) in Sunday school at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. To their families, he said:

It is almost impossible to say anything that can console you at this difficult hour and remove the deep clouds of disappointment which are floating in your mental skies. But I hope you can find a little consolation from the universality of this experience. Death comes to every individual. There is an amazing democracy about death. It is not an aristocracy for some of the people, but a democracy for all of the people. Kings die and beggars die; rich men die and poor men die; old people die and young people die; death comes to the innocent and it comes to the guilty. Death is the irreducible common denominator of all men.

I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity's affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal. Let this daring faith, this great invincible surmise, be your sustaining power during these trying days. 

There are a lot of strength and power inside these two paragraphs! Whenever you feel weak and need something to support you, read these two paragraphs and you shall gain the positive power.