We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For...

I know I have shared the following with many of you...but...it's worth repeating:

Jim Wallis in his book, God’s Politics, tells about his friend, Lisa Sullivan:

Lisa Sullivan, a friend of Marian's and mine--on my board and on your staff for a long time--the best street organizer I ever knew. Hip hop, rap, she'd hug, she'd

scold, she'd plead, and she changed a whole generation of kids. And she died an untimely death at 40 years old. Marian and I were at her gravesite and I remember we held each other and wept for the loss of this incredibly bright young African American woman from D.C., from the streets; so smart, she went to Yale, got a Ph.D., and came back to the streets to work with the kids. She could have been anywhere. She came back here and she gave her life for those kids.

And she left us with a whole lot of kids who'd been changed, but also with a commission. And I leave you with this. Lisa would get angry when people would say what they did yesterday: "Where are the Martin Luther King Juniors now? This is all too big, too much for us. We can't do it. It's just--where are the Kings now?"

She'd look at them and say "Don't say that. Don't say that. Don't you understand, she would say--Don't you understand that we are the ones we have been waiting for?"