Who will step forward...The Analyst or The Artist?

My apologies for the lack of posts lately......work and home, in addition to quite a bit of writing, have consumed much of my energy lately.

As I watched the results the other night and heard over and over again how this election was about Iraq, I remembered something I had read in Greenleaf's original essay, The Servant as Leader, about criticism. I found it, and want to share it with you:

With education that is perponderantly abstract and analytical it is no wonder that there is a preoccupation with criticism and that not much thought is given to "What can I do about it?"........Criticism has its place, but as a total preoccupation it is sterile. In a time of crisis, like the leadership crisis we are now in, if too many potential builders are taken in by a complete absorption with dissecting the wrong and by a zeal for instant perfection, then the movement so many of us want to see will be set back. The danger, perhaps, is to hear the analyst too much and the artist too little.

Let us hope and pray that all elected officials.,....republicans and democrats, rookies and veterans.....spend their time in office not preoccupied with criticism but instead asking the question: What can I do about it?