SVDP conference home visit

Tonight I suggested we change the area our St. Vincent De Paul, SVDP, conference serves so we can better serve the poorest of the poor. A few resisted the change just because it was a change and some were confused of what the change would mean.

Change is all around us, faster that we keep track of it on the news or computer. But most of that change is beyond our control. We can go with the flow of the change or resist it. Change we control, especially ourselves seems harder to make. Many want to change hunger and poverty but when it comes to more than talking about it or giving money to a charitable organization we hesitate.

Peacemaking like change is easy to talk about and desire but difficult to do. Marquette University has a Center for Peacemaking that has many find discussion, talks and retreats on peacemaking. But when it comes to publicly work for Marquette To Teach War No More they are silent. In the early years of the center they used to say they were working on some secret way to control teaching values contrary to the Catholic Church on campus but now they just ignore the issue.

I feel blessed to have a few friends who are in need, poor or ill. When you struggle to survive all the talk and talk about how to improve your life is empty and meaningless.

What to do when someone approaches you for help, judge the person to find how if help is really needed, ignore the person seeking help, say no or give the person some help? Whatever you decide your life and the life of the other persons changes.

When your government takes an action that you believe wrong what do you do: get upset and complain, go along with the action, believe there is nothing you can do about it, protest or take nonviolent action to resist it? Any decision makes for change.

Change can be good or bad; change can be welcomed or threatening; we seek change and are fearful of it. But one thing is inevitable: change happens.

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