So, in case you missed it, yesterday was Martin Luther King, Jr. day. Here on campus, that’s become quite a big deal. We go with the whole “it’s a day on, not off” ethos, and organize a huge group of people to go out across the town and do good works for the day.

My group went over the Wesley Center, where they have just built a new add-on to their building, and it needed painting. The Wesley Center, by the way, is campus ministry run by several different churches working together. It’s a great place. I, personally, had never been to the Wesley Center before Monday, but that made it more special.

You see, there was a lot of painting to do, and a lot of trash to pick up around the outside of the building because it was a newly finished construction job, but there something like twenty or thirty people there to help do all that work. And I have to say, it was pretty touching. I know a lot of the people helping didn’t usually go to the Wesley Center, and know several of them were like me, and had never been. But we were all gathered to do what little part we could in the short amount of time we were there.

We weren’t doing it out of a guilty sense of obligation, or because we were being paid. There was simply a job that needed doing, people that needed help, and other people willing to help them. And none of were judging or being judged by our physical appearance, what religious or spiritual group we belong to, where we were from, or anything like that. We were all united by the content of our character. Which makes me happy, deep down.

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