{"id":23852,"date":"2014-01-20T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23852"},"modified":"2014-01-20T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T04:39:30","slug":"our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23853\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23853\" title=\"FB MLK\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FB-MLK-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A friend asked the point of me putting my personal life online. It&#8217;s because my life is my message, not just how I reframe challenges after the fact, but how I deal with them moment to moment while I&#8217;m in the midst of it.\u00a0 Martin Luther King said it best: <strong><em>Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.<\/em><\/strong> This man helped our world CHANGE for the better and gave hope to generations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/174041\/mlks-clear-instructions-for-successful-overthrows\/\">MLK&#8217;s instructions for Successful Overthrows:<\/a><br \/>\nThese are MLK&#8217;s four links of a successful bridge across troubled waters:<br \/>\n1. Make a clear list of grievances<br \/>\n2. Negotiate on these premises<br \/>\n3. Do daily spiritual purification<br \/>\n4. Take non-violent action<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take the first step in faith.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.&#8221; Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Our%20lives%20begin%20to%20end%20the%20day%20we%20become%20silent%20about%20things%20that%20matter.&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/our-lives-begin-to-end-the-day-we-become-silent-about-things-that-matter\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked the point of me putting my personal life online. It&#8217;s because my life is my message, not just how I reframe challenges after the fact, but how I deal with them moment to moment while I&#8217;m in the midst of it.\u00a0 Martin Luther King said it best: Our lives begin to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35167,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions\/35167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}