Reply #14: Change -- National Level or Locally? BOTH! Here is a story Sapphire Blue posted a few years ago... [View All]

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I was unable to find it when I searched her journal, so I wrote it from memory. Indigo Blue, if you can find her version, please post it, OK?

Parable of the River

There is a modern-day parable about two fishermen who were out enjoying their favorite river. Suddenly they heard screams, and as the voice came nearer, they could hear someone crying for help. They waded out into the river and found a woman being carried by the swift current. They pulled her out, carried her to shore and covered her with warm blankets. Soon, they heard another cry, and pulled out a man who had also been carried down river by the current. As they were tending to him, they heard two more cries. The one fisherman again waded into the river to pull out the hapless people, but the other fisherman was walking along the river bank. "Why aren't you helping me? We need to get these people out!" shouted the first fisherman. The second fisherman replied, "You pull them out. I'm going to go upstream and find out why people are falling into the river."

With so many homeless people in the richest country in the world, it's time to find out why they are falling into the river.

We do BOTH.... we keep pulling people out, but we also ADDRESS the MAIN ISSUE....

Lack of Low-income housing!