Dear Friends,
This week there was a story in the New York Times catching my eye – it reminded me of how much change can happen with small actions. Seeing leftover food, not only as food to be discarded or food to be used as compost (though my friends in the UK love to talk about “composting church”), but food to be turned into elegant multi-course meals.
It made me think of how often change has happened when people have just begun to look at things differently. The head of a major city’s poverty health clinics increased the health in the community dramatically, not only when she hired health care workers from her neighborhood, but when she lowered the educational level the person needed to have attained. The neighborhoods around those health clinics got a whole lot better.
What I’ve been seeing on my screen of people coming together in Minnesota with their musical instruments, with people in synagogues and churches, singing, blending voices in harmony, is powerful. At least temporarily, it is tamping down the level of aggressive activity coming from the government.
Movements, and people making small, slight changes in their workplaces and people seeing discarded food and making it into really fancy meals, show the power of the gospel all around.
Keep tellin’ the Story,
Mike
Enjoy this video of people making music in Minnesota this week:
This week’s takeaway: Looking at things a little differently, can make safer, healthier communities. Have a little faith.