Awakening

There is a peace that comes from believing the body is just a shell - from knowing that skin and bones are merely packaging containing a soul which, like our Father, is the color of water.

And there is a peace that comes from knowing you've passed this belief onto your children - hearing your child proclaim as unmomentous the election of a man whose father was a dark-skinned African.

There is a peace that comes from believing that America is the Land of Opportunity, where any dream is possible.

And there is a peace that comes from knowing you've passed this belief onto your children - seeing your child accept as commonplace the inauguration of a man who once would have been restricted or even persecuted because of the melanin in his skin.

Perhaps now Americans will see that Martin Luther King's dream has come to fruition - that we live in a nation where we are not judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.