Moving Forward
Moving Forward When Houston had an unusually arctic day, I suspected it was too cold to walk, but I put on jacket, hat and gloves and started around my usual circular track. Halfway into one lap, I turned around and took two steps back toward the car. Then I stopped and had a conversation with myself in the freezing wind. Should I turn back or should I move forward and finish the lap. The distance and effort were the same but going back felt like giving up and moving forward felt like progress. I am a progressive. Some see the opposite of progressive as traditional. But I love traditions. Not only the more common Christmas and Thanksgiving activities but also Groundhog Day and Bastille Day. I appreciate the Christian liturgical calendar with Advent, Lent and Easter as worship seasons. So, for this conversation, the opposite of progression will be regression (returning to a previous reality). I read the Facebook posts about “remember when….” with a mixture of nostalgia a...
