Renew your dreams, renew your plans. Perhaps
you had a plan; perhaps you started making that dream come alive. That contribution you have is important.
Make 2013 the year to reconvene. Get it started again. Bring those plans back together again, stop
procrastinating and make it happen.
If you have not done so already, make a commitment to be
an instrument of change no matter how small or how large the change, do it.
A staggering statistic was reached in Chicago in 2012. There were over 500 homicides in 2012. (506
to be exact) This is only the number
from one city; however, the numbers remain high for gang-related homicides and mass
shootings such as the most recent that has plagued our nation at Sandy Hook
Elementary. The question still
unanswered is why? Where do we start to
find a solution? Why do some individuals have no regard for human life? What is the best solution to keeping guns out
of the hands of people with a known mental illness? How do we stop gang violence? What is the attraction to gangs and the
violence they perpetuate? We must get to
the root of these and many other issues for change to occur.
Some of the answers to these and many other questions
are still far away. Part of the solution
involves the media not sensationalizing the criminal and still another part of
the solution involves penetrating the communities, the schools, the churches,
and the homes with education. We need to
be aware of and act on the warning signs of potential violence and troubling
behavior, particularly among our youth. Be
an instrument of change in your own home and then let it permeate into the
schools, the community, and our nation.
I pray that 2013 is a wonderfully blessed year for
you. A year to reconvene the plans, the strategies, and the change that was started.
SharB~TTSD
#TakeTheScaffoldingDown
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