Faith in the Cracks – Allowing God to seep into the cracks in our lives.

Remember Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits? One of the habits was looking for win-win scenarios. In looking around at the world and in beginning to read The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee, our world is dominated by a win-lose mentality. In order for me to win, someone else must lose. It creates the ongoing cycle of us vs them.

McGhee talks about how we all lose (lose-lose) with racism. Economic policies that help only those at the very top, hurt all of the rest of us. It made me think about an interview I heard with Kansas City, MO mayor, Quentin Lucas. He was talking about the retiring Senator Roy Blount (MO). One thing Mayor Lucas stated was that although he and Senator Blount disagreed politically, he was proud of the work of the Senator for the good of the people of Missouri.

It made me think about how currently in politics our country is so divided into which side of the aisle we are on instead of what is best for people. We used to call it the common good. Back when politicians worked together to support things for others because in return they could get support for what their constituents needed. When politicians worked for the good of the people of the United States instead of for their own profit.

We need to get out of the zero sum mentality. We need to become more collaborative rather than competitive. We need to seek the win-win.