I have received several letters about getting trained to be an OASIS tutor since expressing interest in this program a couple years ago. One came this last week, and as I considered some of what is being said and done in response to the Newtown shootings, I realized filling out my application to tutor in this program is something beneficial that I can do on a consistent basis right here right now.
Our president, our reporters, our teachers, our ministers — so many voices asking us to not let another horrible act pass us by without anything in our behavior and our laws changing. At its core, change begins with the realization that something is not right and should be better.
Perhaps the genuine and heartfelt repentance that the Bible talks about is where the deep roots of change can take hold. Something we are doing or something we are failing to do is displeasing in God’s sight. Surely becoming a society of “bigness” — big guns, big money, big greed, big violent games and movies, big pleasers of self instead of pleasers of God — has led us down unintended paths of destruction.
It is my hope and prayer that we will not stop short of true humility and an earnest seeking of the godly virtue, wisdom and kindness that we so desperately need to make this present day a real point of change toward what will make so much better tomorrows for our children, for us all.
Kay Laughlin • Florissant
