For the first time in my 31 years I can say that I’ve finally see Americans come together and truly be America. Some might say that we rallied around each other in the days following 9/11 and while that is true to some extent, I think in many ways it divided us even more. This week however I am blessed to be able to participate in the inaugural activities of Barack Obama, our first African American president.

Yesterday I attended the We Are One concert, which was designed to be a kickoff of sorts of things to come. As you can see from this picture there were people as far as the eye could see. People made the trek to DC from all over the country to be a part of this special event. While most of us could only see the events from the gaze of a Jumbotron monitor it was ok because we were there. There were people from all walks of life, all nationalities, and all ages, all with the single mission of witnessing one of the greatest events in the history of our country.

From the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument if there was an inch of space, someone was standing in it.  Now of course there was some pushing and shoving at people tried to manuever for a better view but overall it was a great experience because everyone remembered why they were there and refused to let anything or anyone compromise that.

This morning I was on Twitter and the question was posed, “Has MLK’s dream been realized”.  After  a little thought, my answer was no.  I don’t personally believe that it ever will be truly realized.  I believe the true power behind his dream is that it is something that we have to constantly work at.  We will never reach a point in time where the work is over and there is nothing left to do.  Every day we are faced with the challenge of creating a world where people are judged only by the content of their character.  We are also challenged to raise our characters to a level that we would even want to be judged by.

I titled this post A Change Has Come because I think America has finally hit a critical turning point.  Through all of our ups and downs we have learned some valuable lessons and we are learning more and more that we are all in this together.  The only way we are going to make it through is to stand together and work things out.  We will never be perfect, but we MUST continue to strive for perfection.