Practice what you preach
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Editor,
With all the speeches, newscasts, articles, editorials, debates, and, yes, even letters to the editor that are decrying conditions in America and the world today, what earthly good do they do if we don't change our thinking and ways of behaving?
We can rant and rave against the present administration, past administrations, and look forward to a new administration but do we really think that anything will really change?
We succumb to greed. We succumb to fear. We succumb to hate. And just these three words: greed, fear, and hate, are totally, directly, and diametrically in opposition to all the teachings through our religious and spiritual institutions that we so reverently hold dear.
Are these teachings a sort of salve that we apply weekly, or whenever, with the belief that since we know about them we can just go about our business in the same old way without applying them?
These questions have been rattling around in my mind a lot lately, and I must say that I see no hope of things getting much better without a critical mass of us changing our ways of thinking and acting much more in line with those religious and spiritual teachings we so reverently hold dear.
"How do we do this?" we ask. Ah — now we are asking the right question, I believe.
Bob McClellan
Polson
