Doing What I Can

Yesterday I participated in some round-table sessions with several of the candidates for election in our next state legislature. Although it was a grueling, all-day affair with ten 45-minute-long sessions with each of ten potential policymakers, it was very gratifying that I could in a small way help increase awareness of brain injury and caregiving by my presence in that group of like-minded advocates.

The twenty-member panel, asking questions of the candidates, included advocates for those with heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, brain injury, and seniors with disabilities. In addition, most of us on the panel were volunteers and/or caregivers.

Most touching were the sessions with candidates who had experienced firsthand some of the issues close to our hearts. It was not hard to reach them with our appeals for legislation that could make life easier for these vulnerable citizens of our state.

Human legislation will never be enough to alleviate all of the world's sorrows, but God expects us to do what we can, whenever we can. That was my goal for being there.

"I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." 

Philippians 3:14 NKJV

The Sower--sits on top of Nebraska's state capitol building