Who are we?

On a day set aside to pay respects
to one of the great champions of freedom
and the dignity of life…

… A vision came from the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. and caught hold in the hearts and minds of people across Missouri….

…Pushing up through the rocks
like pure waters of an Ozark spring…

…Rising like a primordial mist
from the rich loam of earth
gathering in drops of dew
on a fresh Missouri morning…

…Settling over the valley…

…Rising up the hillsides…

Toward the sweeping vistas of the Ozarks.

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It moved from friend to friend…

…Acrost the rivers and to the sea…

…Throughout the blue and green planet…

suspended like a jewel
in the vast expanding breath of outer space,

and visited villages and valleys
across the land.

It moved…
from people who yearned for peace
in the places they lived
for the people they loved

visiting bugs,
critters,
winged birds,
creatures hidden
in darkness of dens…

Enchanting even those who did not know,
who had not dreamed
of a peace
they could not resist…

One by one they arrived
to dip their toes in the waters.


This is our story…


This is the story of Peace in the Ozarks.