Looking at the whole instead of the one

Walking into the church today, I saw community. I saw the choir singing and the congregation swaying. There were smiles and hugs, a sense of camaraderie and family flowed through the church. At the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. I saw a home that was lived in and a warm home at that. Looking at it you cloud tell it hadn’t been lived in for awhile but there was still an certain aura that was in the house that just made you feel like it was a good home. Finally at the museum, one exhibit I saw was the four little girls. They were in stained windows hung above with light shining down, reminding me of angels. I heard them sing the song “Ain’t gonna' let nobody turn me around.” Their innocence really shined through in this exhibit as did their faith. 

Through this whole day I’ve really been thinking about how nothing is never as simple as it seems. There was a quote in the museum “it is not a Southern problem, it is not a Northern problem, it is an American problem.” This resonated with what Andrew Young said to today, that instead of looking at one individuals wrong doings, look at the whole problem. Not one person by themselves can fix a problem, and this problem we have today was not caused by one person and does not only effects one person. Looking at the whole instead of the one is the lesson I took from today’s activities. 

-Sara, Hope High School