Up to the Mountain...

It's been a real King kinda' day today. Reflecting. It is overwhelming the number of artist who have, through their music, paid tribute and given thanks for King's life. I can't tell you how many I have listened to throughout the day. 'Cause it's been a King kinda day.

I've chosen this one to close out my day because it fills my soul. I thought I'd share it here. It's Patti Griffin-Up on the Mountain. It's an interpretation of his final speech in Memphis and was written as a tribute to King. I think that all of us have stood in a place that we have not desired, doing something that we did not really want to do, drawing on a strength we didn't know we had. Because "HE" asked us to. And in standing in that place we have felt the isolation. I certainly can relate to that experience. But what I cannot even imagine is having the strength, the faith that would allow ME to move willingly and without hesitation into those spaces time and time again... because HE asks me to.

But he did. And I thank him for the pathway he created that makes it easier to find my way... there.

Yes, it's been a KING kinda' day.






"Up To The Mountain (MLK Song)"

I went up to the mountain
Because you asked me to
Up over the clouds
To where the sky was blue
I could see all around me
Everywhere
I could see all around me
Everywhere

Sometimes I feel like
I've never been nothing but tired
And I'll be walking
Till the day I expire
Sometimes I lay down
No more can I do
But then I go on again
Because you ask me to

Some days I look down
Afraid I will fall
And though the sun shines
I see nothing at all
Then I hear your sweet voice, oh
Oh, come and then go, come and then go
Telling me softly
You love me so

The peaceful valley
Just over the mountain
The peaceful valley
Few come to know
I may never get there
Ever in this lifetime
But sooner or later
It's there I will go
Sooner or later
It's there I will go