We need to be change agents.

Change agents?  Oh my, you mean I have to give of my own time to help better the community in which I live.  You mean to tell me I can not just sit on the side lines of the world and banter along as a spectator? The answer is no.

We have to give up our soft chairs of comfortability and begin to mentor young people, educate the un-educated, become fathers to the fatherless, mothers to the motherless, etc.  We can not sit by and continue to watch the demise of our communities only to run to the suburbs of saftey and then talk about how bad “those communities” are becoming.

So what do we do?  What can we impact when we have our own families to care for, provide for.  I mean it is survival of the fitist at this point, isn’t it? 

Well that is a fine point to bring up, but what happens if we continue to forge into the future with that attitude.  An attitude that is all about self, an attitude that secludes the rich from the poor, creating an even bigger chasm between the have’s and have not’s.  I believe going in the same direction that we are headed, will bring upon even more dire times.

Let us begin to change our minds back to the old way of doing things.  Sometimes I think some traditions should be continued.  The tradition I am refering to is the working together as a community.  Buying in our own neighborhoods.  Teaching our own children.  We need to stop depending on the world around us to speak into our lives with out our say so.  So let us begin the change, let each one of us make it a point to mentor another, let each one of make it a point to become a change agent.