Getting Out and About

We are surrounded by the hurting, especially the emotionally and spiritually hurting.  And we do a lousy job of helping them, let alone helping them heal.  But maybe most importantly, we don’t even do the first thing, which is just to get to know them.  Because we are a disconnected society, too much hyperindividualism, too much pretension and denial about all that.

In America, most of it is not nearly as dangerous as you think it is, at least during the day.  Often irrational and unfounded fear is holding you back from experiencing the wonders that your community has.  The people you will meet, the places you will see, the neighborhoods, the history, the stories, are far richer than you probably think.  You probably know a little of this already, the last time you turned up a street and found yourself saying “I didn’t know there was…”