My wife and I

Well we were talking the other day about "politics". I admit it's on my brain a lot. I think she shares a feeling like many out there; we talk and talk and talk all day, but what can we really do?! In many ways it sure feels like that is the case. It seems as though we are in the midst of a battle that is raging and we really can't combat against the powers we are faced with. How do you contend with government? How do you contend with the problems and evils we face? If talking about it isn't enough, what can we do? What should we do? Most importantly, I think is the question, what WILL we do? In a loving letter from Abigail to John Adams, she said, "You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator... We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

When assessing what we can do, it definitively implies that there is something that needs doing. So for some time I would like to devote this blog to ideas on a few things:
1. What needs doing? What I mean by this is if we have some "high sounding words" what is it that we wish to accomplish?
2. Why do we need to do this? As important as the what, is the why.
3. Once we ascertain what needs to be done, and why we need to do it, we need to determine what can we do to enact the changes we see as needed?
4. And perhaps the most important, what am I willing to sacrifice that this may get done?

So simmer on those questions. I invite all to participate. This is an open forum and as such I hope to gain from all who will contribute. This exercise is yet to answer the question of my lovely wife as to what we can do, that we be not what Adams' lovely wife said and that of an "inactive spectator." And once we have found some answers to these questions, may it become a call to action.

JAJ