During a Sunday service some years ago, our pastor used a line I couldn’t get out of my head:
“If there ever was a day for change.”
He wasn’t speaking directly about the wave of police shootings and mass violence we had been witnessing in the United States at the time—Orlando, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, Dallas—but that was the connection I made.
As he spoke, I began jotting down words that seemed essential if we are ever to cure what I can only describe as America’s heart problem.
That evening my wife, Shelia, and I began turning those thoughts into a short video. Several days and six versions later, we arrived at the small piece below. It asks a few simple questions:
What needs to change?
How must we change?
How must you change?
I’ve come to believe that attitudes and actions are deeply intertwined. Each of us can toss small pebbles into the ocean that together may produce a larger wave.
My own first step is simple:
stop being so quick to judge others.