EDITOR, The Tribune.

We have a lot of people who complain.

We have many who blame.

But we have very few who are willing and are doing something about it.

It is with a certain amount of disgust that I all too often hear that ‘it’s only gangs killing each other’ or ‘let them kill each other off’.

The story changes when it hits closer to home; but not for the better.

It ought to be a concern for the life of a human being lost, and those lives are lost (not irredeemably) before they kill or are killed.

These are lives that are created in the image of God, with the breath of life that He provides, just as we are, and we feel fit to say they deserve to be chaff in the wind?

What are we willing to do to change the course of lives that are destined for ruin and destruction? Do we just believe it is up to someone else to interrupt their hopeless path in life?

That is the reason most are on that path in the first place, the ones who should have been responsible have opted out of the lives of these young men, leaving them without love and without direction.

Imagine, if just 100 of the 300,000 people (give or take) decide to do something to make a difference in the lives of young men who are lost and acting out what a significant difference that could make.

Imagine if the churches that spend so much on building these edifices to the glory of God (who does not need a building built with human hands to display his glory), spend the money and the time dedicated to these temporary and extraneous things and invested in more actions that reach and help youth in at risk environments; what glory would that bring to God?

Imagine the difference if we would act in love instead of complaining, or dismiss the lives lost or the lives damaged by violence perpetrated or as the victim.

Imagine if we cared.

Imagine if we did something.

TIM ROBERTS

Nassau,

May 2, 2023