HOW TO WORK TOGETHER FOR LAKE ATITLAN?

From a discussion on Facebook in the open group AMSCLAE:


https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSCLAE/181121465276992

This is the best explanation of why and how we need to work together: When I am attacked, my immediate reaction is to STRIKE BACK and in a BIG WAY. That's why I don't work with groups. I can't stand it. But here is a situation where we all NEED TO and I WANT TO work for the good of Lake Atitlan, so perhaps I will be able to learn the skills needed to do so. Here is what was written to me that changed EVERYTHING, in just a few words:

Acción Guatemala 11:24am Dec 13, 2011 

Catherine Todd ... please don´t go just because of one person. if Maximo wants to be nice and make better translations, he should do it himself and we will all be grateful. If he can´t, then there might be another solution... we should all have a little patience. We are a community of many languages and we really need to share information"

God works in mysterious ways. Ever since I decided to do the LakeAtitlanDirectory.com which is simple, free online database listing all the community groups and services around Lake Atitlan, I have been subject to the most incredible rudeness and attacks by a few individuals. It's been enough for me to seriously consider shutting down the whole thing. But then I see something like what Acción Guatemala writes, and I see the problems when people can't or won't work together for the common good, and I realize that I have contributed to conflict myself by my immediate gut reaction of striking back, so I will give it another try.

I hope I can learn new skills at this late stage. If not, I will continue to work from the sidelines and provide what is necessary and remain in my small cloistered monastery where I do find peace. But the whole wide world is awaiting outside in all it's conflict and cacophony and I can't hide away here forever. It's time to save Lake Atitlan and that will take concerted effort of everyone working together.

The problems with Lake Atitlan are but a serious SYMPTOM of the lack of care that everyone who lives here has shown for the environment, whether it is by ignorance, or impotence, or incompetence; or ego, graft, corruption and greed. Many of us, like myself, don't know what to do and we are trying to find out. I hope everyone will help towards a common goal for the common good. It should be easy but it's not. I will never know why.

Dear God please show us The Way.

"The winds of grace blow all the time; all we need do is set our sails."