The
other day, I came across a two-frame comic. In the first frame is a politician
like figure standing at a podium in front of a happy crowd of people
each with one hand raised as the politician asks, "Who wants change?"
In
the second frame, it's the same scene, but the politician asks, "Who wants to change?" No
hands are raised. No one looks at the politician or one another.
Everyone
wants change, but no one wants to change.
The
idea, the need, the desire for change was readily apparent during the recent Episcopal
Church Young Adult Pilgrimage to Ferguson, Missouri. Twenty-four other young adults and I, 6-8 staff, and countless guest
speakers, engaged in conversations about racial justice and reconciliation. Indeed, during the pilgrimage we met with many inspiring agents of change. But
what was also apparent, especially in looking out from Ferguson, is a lack of
will to change. We want change, but we're not changing.