"It'll Be You and Me Up in a Tree"

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James
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I had this conversation with Lucas on the way back to Spokane from Colfax on Easter Sunday where I expressed my eternal frustration that not everyone in the human race wants to help others, better themselves and contiue to learn all they can throughout their lives. Maybe I am coming off as an intellectual snob, but I just feel that we as human beings should want to make a difference, grow and change. Even something as simple as Thomas Jefferson's line, "I am but a young gardener." It may just be the 195 road rage talking, but how can we, especially in today's world, only think about ourselves? Why can we not reach across divides and find compromise inside of cultures and respect that?

On a related note, I am on weeks 7 and 8 of the Beth Moore "Believing God" bible study that I am doing with a small group at Whitworth. In learning more about the Christian faith, I am in turn finding out more about how things could work in the world. I know that may not make sense but, in learning the principles (which I consider very similar to many other religion's principles--and I am saying this about Christian biblical and founding principles, not the culture of "religion"), I am finding a clearer path on which to follow in this life.