Possession is 9/10th's of the law

     There is a law that says that a person who possesses something has an easier time proving that it is theirs.  The person who has lost possession has a difficult time proving that it belongs to him or her.  This morning, on my walk, I thought of my father.  I love him dearly but he spent most of his life in his own world.  I was his daughter, but if you gave him a twenty question trivia quiz about me, he would flunk it.  He did not know when I got the chicken pox.  He would not know my high school GPA and he would not know at what age I accepted a call to the ministry.  My father would have stuttered over the age I began to wear glasses.  If the gestapo pulled up and demanded that he prove that he was my father, he would be be hanging from the gallows.  I think about that and I think of those who take possession.  I am not saying they own it, but they certainly take possession of it.  Some people wait for someone to give it to them.  Others simply occupy the space.  I thank God for all the people in my life, who occupied the space of a father until the father I had returned.  I thank God for all the people who occupied the space of a mother until my mother was well enough to mother again.  These are the people who simply raised their hand when duty called.
      Martin Luther King, the dreamer, raised his hand and went into a battle that surely would end in his assassination.  He did not let that deter him.  He possessed his human rights at a time when he could have taken it by force, yet he chose  to simply occupy it.  He sat down at the counter and waited to be served.  He marched in front of the White House because he had a right to.  Some would say that he had no business demanding what was illegal in the south.  King possessed it anyway for possession itself is 9/10ths of the law.  I have realized that I am no longer begging to exercise my right to live my life on my own terms.  I am not going to prove to anyone that I have the right to be a minister.  I am simply going to possess it.

The Dreamer/Tribute to King
http://youtu.be/HIqb8xdKHzE