Accept change; America, it's time to come together, reader says

Letter to the Editor,

It occurs to me each time I glance at the opinion page that we keep hearing from the same tired voices of people who just can’t move past their anger at life’s changes.

Change is hard. It comes whether we want it to, or not. We can work toward bending with change and being graceful, or we can stand rigid and be battered by life.

Flexibility isn’t just for young people with youthful limbs, it is a skill  that we adults should try to practice. If we always stick to the same old routines, we never grow.

Creativity is a result of opening up the mind to let the inspiration come through. Lincoln County is full of artists and they probably recognize that this creative process is tied to flexibility and change.

One of the best things about folks in Lincoln County is their generosity of spirit. When someone needs a helping hand, people here generally reach out to help. The pack mentality of bullying, or shunning, has no place in helping out friends and neighbors.

It is always easy to fall into anger and the first reaction (when things don’t go as we feel they should), when with just a little more effort, we can stretch our minds and seek to mentally ‘walk in another person’s moccasins.’

I would ask the area’s church leaders to ponder this message going forward. 

Can you please work to help your parishioners follow the tenants of Jesus’ teachings? To encourage people to open up to the energizing properties of change? And please, ask yourself what Jesus would think of all this anger. 

Would He approve of the tone of these letters in the newspaper, or would he shake his head in shame?

Let’s try to live more in the moment. Let’s try to stop pointing at one another and blaming. Let’s be bigger than that, and reach out to each other, and reach out to...change.

— Ursula Ericksen

Lincoln County