Dave Zimmerman shared a link today that I’ll pass on to you. It’s an interesting post about our strategies for not making needed changes; but I’ll be honest, what I really like about the post is the story that opens it:

There is a story in which a young minister is sitting in her house one day when she hears a banging on the door. When she opens the door she discovers one of the church members standing before her. It is obvious that he is exhausted from running to her house and is barely holding back some tears.

“What’s wrong” asks the minister, seeing that this man is obviously in distress

“Please can you help”, replied the man, “A kind and considerate family in the area are in great trouble. The husband recently lost his job and the wife cannot work due to health problems. They have three young children to look after and on top of all that the man’s mother lives with them as she is unwell and needs constant care. They have no money at the moment and if they don’t pay the rent by tomorrow morning the landlord is going to kick them all onto the street, even though its winter”.

“That’s terrible”, said the minister, “Of course we will help. Anyway how do you know them”?

“I’m the landlord” replied the man.

Maybe that’s been circulating around on email for decades, but I’d not come across it before. You, of course, are encouraged to read further and digest the rest of Rollins’ excellent post. But after a week of posts about pornography, homosexuality, and Mormonism, I think I’ll just close the Friday afternoon with that. Have a good weekend!