Some people are carriers of negativity. They are storehouses of pent-up anger and volatile emotions. Some remain trapped in the victim role and act in ways that further their victimization. And others are still caught in the cycle of addictive or compulsive patterns.
Negative energy can have a powerful pull on us, especially if we’re struggling to maintain positive energy and balance. It may seem that others who exude negative energy would like to pull us into the darkness with them. We do not have to go. Without judgment, we can decide it’s okay to walk away, okay to protect ourselves.
We cannot change other people. It does not help others for us to get off balance. We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them.
Mr Reisig hastens to assure the reader “first let me say I am not without compassion” then proceeds to demonstrate a total lack of compassion. He does however, demonstrate his prejudice, worship of the almighty dollar, an ability to jump to unjust conclusions to support his intolerance, stereotyping, fear mongering, a total lack of generousity of the spirit, ill will and an barbaric inhumanity to his fellow man.
If Mr. Reisig thinks it is so easy to find solutions to what is a very complex situation that he condemns the Mayor for pausing to think and consult with the community, he is the one whose intelligence should be questioned.Should Mr. Reisig feel insulted by my drawing attention to his demonstrated lack of brainpower, he may prove me wrong by laying out his miraculous quick, easy, neat and tidy solution to the issue of homelessness.
Homelessness is a community problem and will require the community to begin to address the needs of the diverse group of people who make up the ranks of the homeless in Abbotsford.
(HP) Abbotsford, BC
In a supremely ironic twist of fate it would appear that the wrong group was worried about the honesty of their new neighbours. Over the past several days the residents of Compassion Park have suffered the theft of several valuable and needed items. These items were of a large enough size that they could not have been removed through the Park unto Highway 11 without the residents seeing the thief. The only path the thief (thieves) could have used to enter and exit unseen is via the residential neighbourhood adjacent to Compassion Park. Thus it seems that the residents of this adjacent neighbourhood should not have been nearly as concerned about theft and the honesty of their new neighbours in Compassion Park as they (and obviously the residents of the Park) should have been/be concerned about the honesty of their old neighbours in their residential suburb.
