Let’s share something positive, shall we?
I mean, just glancing at this morning’s newspaper, we see stories that tell us that:
--Yesterday was another lousy day in the stock market;
--Kids who get involved in gangs find it difficult to make their way out of that lifestyle; and
--A local Girl Scout troop was bilked out of $100 worth of cookies by slimebags who passed counterfeit $20 bills to the girls.
So, yes, let’s do look at something good about our world. Allow me, if you will, two or three paragraphs to tell you how 30-some people from the law firm where Leah works spent last Saturday.
They toted plywood. They pounded nails. They put up walls on a four-plex structure that soon will be a home to several families who have immigrated to Seattle from Congo and Ethiopia. Attorneys and law firm staff worked side-by-side with soon-to-be homeowners. The sharing of labor -- and pizza -- made for a coming-together of individuals from opposite sides of the globe.
And while it's my inclination -- and I suspect the same might be true of many of the folks from the law firm -- to be low-profile and not “go public” about our volunteerism, the reality is that we human beings are all bombarded by so much bad news each day, I'm thinking that it’s important, for the sake of our common sanity, that we also share the good.
Our Saturday was good.
