MLK Day!

Martin Luther King Day! A day of service to give back to our community!

Mike and I recently joined up with a community organization called HandsOn Greater Phoenix. This is such a good reference for anyone, in AZ, wanting to get involved in service projects around their community. They list a calendar of events and ways you can sign up at there site: http://www.handsonphoenix.org/

Yesterday we went to a charter school, affiliated with ASU, and helped hundreds of other volunteers clean, paint, and organize the school. It was such a good way to start the day, being of service to those in our community. We hope to make this a family tradition, eventually taking our kids along, and signing up at least 2 x a month to help out in different causes.

Here are some quotes from such a great man who inspired so much change in this great nation.

We were proud to honor him on this day!

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better"

"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love"

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love"

"Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power"

"The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy"