How can I make a difference? That question sounds many times
each day. As people of goodwill encounter people with needs, they seek action
to help them. Continuous action happens every day throughout the world. I can
only speak of what I know here in my area. I see it each day. Do you?
Perhaps my experience is different. I worked for most of my
53-year career in nonprofit organizations. Even a few for profits, but then my
efforts were focused on helping others within the reach of those corporations.
So nonprofit operations come naturally to me.
Such work is done with people who strive to make a
difference in the lives of others. Social workers, teachers, doctors, nurses,
caregivers…the list is long. Whole careers, whole lives spent serving others.
Cops do it; firemen do it; paramedics do it.
So do good Samaritans. Helping the outcast is always a need
present in our lives. I often think they are there to remind me of how good
life has been for me. I have had good times and bad, but mostly good, very
good. I cannot complain. I dare not! Others have much meaner lives; they
need help. We are strong so we can offer that help. It is a simple transaction.
But it is a call to action. Do we answer that call? Probably
not all the time, but sometimes?
The measure of a nation’s soul, I think, is how readily its
people answer the call to serve those in need. I wonder how America measures up
these days?
An honest question seeking an honest answer.
Time we all provided it.
January 11, 2019
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