Jan. 27, 2017 Perspective: What is Your Contribution?

These frigid winter days and nights have offered me the opportunity to research and delve into topics I know little about. Recently, I have been reading books by Peter Block and John McKnight exploring the ways we can transform communities. A recurring question is raised on these pages that I believe all of us should ask ourselves: "What is your contribution to the very thing you complain about?" It seems to me that our world is filled with laments and complaints; perhaps we take great joy in finding fault with this and that or feeling we have no control over life's limitations. Oh, I realize that problems do exist, but why get stuck discussing the dilemmas? Let's change the conversation to offer our individual abilities to make things happen. I have faith that each of you has a gift that you could share with your neighbors, your colleagues, your family and friends, and thereby reduce all the complaining and blaming we all often do. It certainly can't hurt to try.