Looking Ahead

This year we’ve learned many things, some positive and some negative. Many of us learned that people who were to represent us didn’t. We found that people who said they’d help us didn’t. We learned that experts are not always so expert. Or did we? Didn’t we know those things from our life experiences? In our day to day lives if a business does not come through as advertised, doesn’t do what it said it would do we simply don’t do business with them anymore. If a doctor gives us a wrong diagnosis we do not go to him/her for future expertise. If we have a so called friend who turns away from us in times of crisis we know not to count on that person in a time of need. So we should use the same logic and actions in regards to our politicians and government agencies.

In short, we need to look to the future as families, churches, and communities being as self reliant as we can. The exposure of faults should not leave us depressed. We should learn from our experiences and accept the challenge: that our future must be shaped by US, not the people or institutions which have let us down.

The future is not 2020. In a large degree that future is what we choose to make it. To make it a good future we must acknowledge what has not worked and with God’s help, courage and faith we move forward making our part of the world better.

Look forward. Knowing that you must be the one that makes your life better.