YPAL – Green Team

I’m always amazed to see a build site the week of “Raise-the-Roof”- Habitat’s name for the “Amish Barn Raising” blitz that takes place at the beginning of every build.  I drove by the site early this morning and all of the walls are built and ready to go.  We’ll put them together like a huge jigsaw puzzle later this week and after 4 solid days of hard work, we’ll have a framed house with felt on the roof and doors in the walls.

The wall sections are vessels for the energy of many volunteers captured and waiting to be transformed into a home for a local family.  Habitat volunteers and partner families exist at the crossroads between potential and action- they turn what could be into what is.  At the risk of exposing my English Major roots, here are some words from poet Shel Silverstein that capture part of this idea:

• “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

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