I have a dream
Those of us who were fortunate enough to hear the magnificent words of Dr. King will never forget that day! In August of 1963 I was 22 years old and had just moved to Washington D.C., actually the Maryland suburbs. I went there to get employment with the National Security Agency. I was married and had two children ages 20 months and 8 months. There was a delay in my job for ninety days, so I went out and found some work in a shoe store at a local strip mall. In less than three months I would be outside walking at that mall only to hear the horrible words “the president has been shot”. But on this day on the 28th day of August I was thrilled to hear the famous “I have a dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I know that I am idealist in many ways and that I mostly look for the “good”. Some might say naive. I remember sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at other times and feeling the energy. I could hear words of the Gettysburg address in my heart. That all of us are created equal!
Living in Washington D.C. at that time was an exciting place to be. It was like no other time in my life. Eventually, I realized that working in intelligence work was not for a married man with two beautiful children. So I stayed in the shoe business and became a vice-president of a fortune 100 company. We grew from sixty million per year to 1.2 billion in fifteen years. I created so many progressive improvements at the company; that I was third in line for the CEO position. But alas, or good fortune, I had a dream.
In 1970 a series of paranormal events led me to enroll at the National Spiritual Science University. I studied all the religions of the world along with Quantum Physics and all the ways a person could read energy. Four years later, I graduated and started a spiritual center in Landover Maryland. Life was never to be the same. My soul had a dream and I was living it. And now, more than forty years later I am still living it; each and every day as I connect with you on this blog.
As a nation, we all still have a dream that black and white, straight and gay, liberal and conservative will not be judged by the color of their skin or their sexual orientation or their political belief but by the “content of their character.” I hope all of you have a dream. I hope your dream is bigger than you can imagine. I hope your dream scares the pants off of you! I hope your heart and soul will never give up that dream. This world was built by dreamers. Never stop dreaming! From my dreamer heart to yours, Thomas