Who are our neighbors?
What do we believe?
What do we desire?
What do we dream of?
What do we need?
What are our capacities?
What are our strengths?
In what ways and to what degree are our needs being met and our dreams realized by using our capacities and strengths, today?
In what ways and to what degree could our needs be met and our dreams realized by using our capacities and strengths, today?
In what ways and to what degree are our capacities and strengths unable to meet our needs and realize our dreams?
What do we need to close this gap?
Do we need more …
knowledge?
skills?
encouragement?
organization?
communication?
reflection?
faith?
What tried-and-true processes are ready and waiting for us to take advantage of them in order to address these issues?
And why haven’t we already begun?
This is a powerful way of framing our engagement with our neighbors. Certainly, a process of capacity-building holds a lot of promise for realizing our dreams at some future point. But that's only possible if we seize upon what opportunities are immediately before us.
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