serving the community heart

the times call out to us with their deep pain and suffering
war, greed, hate, crime, lies, abuse, endless the evils manifesting

strong then our need to act, to do, to provide relief, to offer aid

political action is considered, and great ideas of what needs doing
are present everywhere

campaign finance reform, run off elections, national referendums,
all paper ballots with tight oversite, - everyone has a good idea,
including liberals, conservatives, libertarians, communists, socialists,
anarchists, christians, muslims, gays, environmentalists,
constitutional reformists, gun owners, abortion foes and supporters, etc.

unfortunately these ideas do not agree

our constitution, in fact the art of politics itself is often thought as a
means by which diverse impulses find and reach compromise

what then the nature of service to the community heart, when so much
diversity is clearly present?

how about the sharing (among all parts of the whole) of conversation
over fundamental questions - not answers, or programs or plans, but questions.

The Book of a Thousand Questions