If laws could change behavior
the Ten Commandments would have stopped
- Idol worship
- Blasphemy
- Working on holy days
- Dishonoring parents
- Killing
- Adultery
- Theft
- Lying
- Greed
So why do we seek to change laws
to stop
- abortion
- racism
- sexual harassment
- excessive campaign spending
- environmental destruction
- climate change
- et cetera
- et cetera
- et cetera?
These things will not change
until human nature changes
Change happens first in mind
and heart
I pray
for
change
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Change is the natural state of the universe.
Without change time would be imperceptible.
Without change there would be no life, no movement, no light, no sound
With forethought and planning,
We can partner change,
We can shape change.
We are impatient about change that is slower than we want,
We fear change that is faster than we want.
But slow change calls on us to be patient
And fast change calls on us to be courageous.
Each of us has only a little power but much passion.
Focus your passion so that your power pushes change in the directions of your highest aspirations,
Work where your power can have effect, even if the changes seem to small,
Concentrate on the direction of change not the size
Change builds upon itself,
Allies emerge,
Although you can see no one else working with you,
You do not work alone.
(Adapted from the words of Paul Krafel in Seeing Nature and Octavia Butler in the Parable of the Sower)