Comments on: letter to my colleagues the morning after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School https://shareourstrength.org/letter-to-my-colleagues-the-morning-after-the-tragedy-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school/ Ending Hunger and Poverty in the US and Abroad Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 By: Brittany https://shareourstrength.org/letter-to-my-colleagues-the-morning-after-the-tragedy-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-34 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:59:03 +0000 https://www.shareourstrength.org/letter-to-my-colleagues-the-morning-after-the-tragedy-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school#comment-34 Hmm. We don't blame cars and booze for drunk driving deaths that kill way more people a year, and yet, we blame guns for this horrible tragedy. Kinda hypocritical, don't you think. Remember that the next time you have a 'harmless' glass or two of wine.

]]> By: Unknown https://shareourstrength.org/letter-to-my-colleagues-the-morning-after-the-tragedy-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-35 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:31:12 +0000 https://www.shareourstrength.org/letter-to-my-colleagues-the-morning-after-the-tragedy-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school#comment-35 The senseless losses in Connecticut and globally are indeed worthy of our great lament–and action. May we always allow our grief to inform a deeper, ever more cherished understanding of this human experience–and of the power of our own active compassion in the face of an evil that emerges in the forms of mental and physical unhealth. A laser-sharp focus is required in the search for solutions while a concentrated indwelling in the present makes appropriate space for the healthy, humane responses we call sorrow and pain.

In the past, I have liked the phrase, "Let the change begin with me." Today it seems too passive. I am now actively looking for strategies to make this more than a pleasant-sounding wish. That said, I have a great worry as I see people rushing to a legislative response to an emergence of evil. (Selah.) A colleague recently discovered that he has high cholesterol when he was told that he had been prescribed medication for the same. I shared with him that–when I learned I had high cholesterol–my physician prescribed changes in my diet and lifestyle. Now 80 lbs lighter, I wonder, is our rush to law the same as a rush to the pharmacy? Can we really legislate and prescribe wellness, or is it corporately developed through an ethic of nurturing and care?

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