Had a friend of mine email me this morning about the increasing problems in the leadership of the U.S. government, the lack of personal responsibility, political interest and education by the general public, and his views on a few of the current headlines on war and terrorism.
Personally I don’t worry about it; I just act. But I don’t do what makes sense to me, I just do the “good things” I can tell that I’m being led to do. “Talk to the clerk at the counter, tell him about what you do on the streets of Atlanta.”, “Go have your lunch next to that rough looking guy outside. Don’t worry, he’ll start talking first.”, “Say hello to that older woman next to you at the Internet cafe.”, etc etc.
And who knows? When I opened up my mouth did I just say something that changed the course of someone’s life? Did what I say lead to something else “good”? Were they one step closer to deciding that were going to cut off everyone around them?, Did what I say just influence the sister of the best friend of one of our political leaders?, Did this woman just have a ‘really’ bad day and I helped her see something better so she can now help someone else?, Or was this person going to kill themselves today? … I don’t know. But what I ‘do’ know, is that if I follow this idea, that I recognize as good, that whatever happens will be a better plan than what I could have ever come up with. :-)
But if I do ‘nothing’, then I simply become one of the guys that Edmund Burke spoke about when he said, “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing.” (1) However what I have learned is that if there is anything good in this world, then God came up with it first :-)
