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Valerie Mrak is the director of the Journey to Peace feature documentary project. This comes from her 2004 yearend newsletter…
Before the world knew him, Martin Luther King decided that something had to change in Birmingham, Alabama. Though King was uncertain of the future, he was clear about the decision that he faced. He could demonstrate and go to jail, or not. One can imagine him saying as he joined the group of protestors,”Something has to change in Birmingham. I can go to jail in Birmingham, and I am willing to do this.”
Most of us would be quick to back off from identification with such a hero, but Journey to Peace writer, James DeVinney suggests that each of makes choices such as this, which determine who we are to become. If you consider that each action or thought bears an impact of some kind, then you may see how these choices create a back drop for scenes of your life that your are continuously creating.
Eventually these scenes build to a climax, or invite some kind of turning point. In what DeVinney calls a defining moment, a person confronts their own worst enemy; themselves. In such moments, we see the truth about our reality and our choices. This is when a person says, “Am I strong enough to deal with this?” and “What am I going to do about it?” This is when we face the real challenge: “Am I going to run or to embrace it?”
Journey to Peace needs to raise $500,000 to tell the stories of six little individuals turned Nobel Peace Laureates. They are the only project in the new sidebar without a blog. They do, however, have a beautiful website and realistically aspire to grow into a tremendous network news node as they begin to use their early footage to invite peace conversations worldwide.
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