An Opportunity for a Better World

Life can be rough sometimes, can’t it? 

Does it seem, sometimes, that people are so divided, so angry with each other that we’ll never be able to reconcile?  Does it seem like too many people who harm others get away with it?  Is the normal way of things tumultuous, chaotic?  Do you notice that despite extraordinary measures, most people just don’t feel secure?  Are you beginning to think of prosperity as a distant memory, something only a lucky few can experience now?

Would you love to live in a better place?  A place that, even if it’s not perfect, aspires to be?

How about a place in which justice is the goal of every public institution?  A place in which peace is sought more than war, and the people are content?  A place in which you feel safe and secure, because you know everyone else in the place has your back?

How about a place that is prosperous, where everyone has opportunity to pursue the things he or she thinks are worthy of time, effort, and commitment?  Would you love to live in a place of freedom, where no one is oppressed, and everyone knows deep inside that he or she is blessed to be there?

Who wouldn’t want to live in a place like that?  Who wouldn’t work, strive, even sacrifice to find or build a place like that?

And if that better place could be found or attained, wouldn’t it be even better if you knew that it would stay wonderful for generations to come?  If you knew that your contribution to this wonderful world would benefit the children and grandchildren who will follow you?

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You know, if all that sounds really good to you, you wouldn’t be the first to wish it.  In fact, you’d have a lot of company.  Good people have been trying to build a place like that for a long time.  WHO do you suppose might have tried to create such a place?  Take a look at this from the 18^th century:

 “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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WHERE do you suppose we should begin to seek that better world?  You know - the one we’d rather be living in.  Give it some thought today.  Maybe as you go about your work, as you talk to friends and family, as you search around you and within you for something great, you will achieve some surprising and hopeful insights.  

That is my wish for you… my wish for us.

Gryphem