"but the greatest of these is Love"

Man - did we jump into this vacation or what?! First full day I'm here, my mom and nephew went with me to both the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. First off, the NHS related to Dr. King is pretty amazing to walk around. It consists of the Visitor Center, the historic and present Ebenezer Baptist church (the former where Dr. King and 'Daddy' King, his father, preached from until their last days), the King birthplace and boyhood home and much more

When you walk towards the Visitor Center, you see a statue of a slight, hunched-over man. As you get closer, he starts to appear more and more strong, until you realize that it's a representation of Dr. King's role model, the Great Mahatma, M.K. Gandhi:

It's pretty amazing when you can see such a direct line of thought, going from one leader to another. Such different circumstances, but, really, not different at all. Certainly not different in the effects these men had on their times. It can be challenging to not focus on how they were terribly taken from this world, instead of focusing, as they might want, on what they were trying to achieve. If you're so inclined, read the first paragraph of what Jawaharlal Nehru said in his radio address upon Gandhi's assassination, called by many 'The Light Has Gone Out'.

How do address such an emptiness, when a person leaves us and seems to take their ideas with them? Maybe Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's widow, said it best on her own tomb. We're all familiar with Dr. King's words on his tomb - powerful, everlasting.

Take a look at hers.