Interdependence – A search for truth

I have been touched recently by how interconnected we are with the world. I will share with you a Dr. Martin Luther King quote which I found on a blog by Toni Bernhard J.D. Turning Straw Into Gold. Someday I may find the words to express how deeply Dr. King’s life has moved and shaped mine. I wish I could express the gratitude I feel toward him for all he has done in his human and mortal existence. I am so deeply grateful for how his words and vision continue to inspire all of us.

“All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. Did you ever stop to think that you can’t leave for your job in the morning without being dependent on most of the world? You … go to the bathroom and reach over for the sponge, … handed to you by a Pacific islander. You reach for a bar of soap, … at the hands of a Frenchman. …in… the kitchen to drink your coffee for the morning, … poured … by a South American…. Tea… poured … by a Chinese. Or … cocoa for breakfast, … poured … by a West African …. toast, at the hands of an English-speaking farmer, not to mention the baker. And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured; this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.” (From Dr. King’s 1967 Christmas Sermon on Peace)

Dr. King is one of the people my parents taught me to honor and appreciate for their sacrifice to set the stage for the return of Peace to our world.

It has been a study and focus of my over 60 years on this earth. My parents had been children during WWII. My father studied at the feet of Hugh Nibley, ASS, serving during WWII in Europe and the Pacific. My father got the only A in Dr. Nibley’s religion class: World Religions. The final was one question. “Why do we study all the religions in the world?” My father’s essay stated the main focus of the semester’s study: every religion holds some part of the full truth.

Dr. King demonstrates, through international commerce, interdependence in our morning routine. Greater interdependence is in sharing of truth and knowledge. When we share that knowledge of true things, we lift each other higher.

The funny thing, raising society higher, only when we lift someone else. I love teaching Relate Social Structure. It changes lives for the better in a powerful way.

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