The other day I was driving to Columbus with four friends, Glen, Andy and Mary, to visit with Francis Strickland the First Lady of the State of Ohio. On the way we got to talking about why people today don't seem to care about what's going on around them whether locally, nationally or in the world.
My observation, for some time now, is that there is an upside to desperation. If necessity is the Mother of invention, then desperation is the father of necessity. Simply put; desperation creates necessity and necessity creates invention.
If we haven't come up with solutions, creative ideas or manufactured new inventive actions regarding broken families, poverty and homelessness its only because we're not discomforted or desperate enough about it. In fact I'm sure you'll agree that we as human beings don't like discomfort causing desperation, and so we avoid it at all costs - naturally. For example I don't like the discomfort of the cold and so I wear a coat ... and maybe even a sweater if I'm feeling even a little cold making it's way through the coat.
I'm not entirely sure however, in our driven state to eradicate all discomfort from our lives, we've thought much about the upside of discomfort causing desperation.
The men and women who graduate each year from our Ready For Life Program, did so because they embraced desperation and made it work through necessity and .... WOW, a new life was born. That's transformation.
Our city, and the things we don't like about it, will change just like the transformed lives of Cherry Street Mission Ministries when we as its citizens and particularly its churches, embrace just enough desperation to create something new.
Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Dan Rogers
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