I feel like our little community is experiencing and internal revolution.

We are a pretty eclectic town.

It has been very easy to allow our differences to create silos between the agencies that make up our larger community.

While there was a time when we let those difference keep us in our separate corners, I feel that is beginning to change.

As a community, we are not giving up our differences, after all our differences are what make us unique. They are the things that actually give us collective power. But, we are realizing that if we are truly to succeed in the face of all the challenges of our immediate future we must focus not on our differences but our similarities grounded in shared experience.

I believe God is pleased by the work our community is doing. I am waiting with baited breath to see what happens next in our little town.