It makes you wonder how some people can pick up a cause that becomes a movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were a part of a movement that gave women the right to vote and started the country thinking about gender equality in this country. How did they begin?
One of the observations you could make if you were to do research into their childhood is they both came from very stable homes. There were not victims of abuse. They did not have sad childhoods and came into their adult years embittered and prepared for a fight. They were not angry young women who felt unjustly treated in their formative years.
I think it was the calm of their childhood that gave them a sense of how life was supposed to be. They ran into some things in their lives that seemed wrong and they found no way to overcome those things so they turned to a cause that would benefit themselves and other women.
The ultimate question for us to think about is this: "What cause have we each found for our lives?"
Causes can be small things or large. Many large causes began as small things that turned big.
What is your cause? What is the passion in your life?
Could it be to make a better life than you had for the children in your life? Could it be to confront the things that are wrong in our world in terms of injustice for the poor?
Is your cause homosexuality? Do you think there is discrimination that we ought to confront? Is it the economy and those who have become victimized by the recession and the lack of services for people who really need help?
Is your cause CSU students? or the elderly?
What is your cause?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have the readers of the blog see your thoughts click on the 'comments" box below. I look forward to hearing from.
Charles Schuster
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