Do Something About It

James 5:13-20

I'm not sure if it's just the last two weeks I'm having and the energies I'm absorbing from around me, but I feel like screaming at a lot of the people around me to "Just Do Something About It!"

I'm hearing a lot of people saying, "If only I had said," or "If only I had done," or "What can I do to make it up?" or "but nobody told me, showed me, gave me, said to me." Frankly, I've heard a lot of excuses as to why things aren't instead of reasons for why things are. I almost, almost, believe that today's culture is becoming one of dependence on others.

I was feeling this way, that is, until yesterday. On my way into work I was listening to an interview they were having with a local poet and how she gets inspiration for her poems. She described how it was through mentors and honest friendships that she has achieved her success. She told of how she decided to become an author of psychological thrillers, ala Stephen King, and having her mind, and soul, broadened by one single speaker in one single class in college.

She heard in this speaker a passion for bringing his deepest emotions and life-views into words others can read. The connection he made with the new author showed her what she thought writing should be; a way to help others peek into themselves to find that which will spark their own inner passions.

She then described how one day she was sitting in a park and noticed a branch laying on the ground which had fallen from a nearby tree. She could tell by the leaves still attached that the branch must have been there for at least a couple days. Her eyes then focused on a blossom which was still attached to the branch and saw that a bee was flying around inside that flower. It was in that moment she realized that a bee can still draw sweetness from the nectar of a dying blossom.

I will now carry this quote with me in all I do and remember that even if we feel as though there is nothing left, either within ourselves or the people around us, there is always hope; always. Don't ever give up, if something doesn't feel right, do something about it. If something doesn't look right, do something about it. If something doesn't sound right, do something about it.

On the other side of that, when something is going right and when all is good in this world do something about it as well. Because if a bee can still find something good in a dying blossom doesn't it also make sense that a dying blossom still has something to offer? Nothing is beyond hope - nothing!