Do you remember the
story of Amelia Bedelia? This beloved
character is nothing if she isn’t literal.
When she hears words she understands the literal meaning and then acts
on it. Amelia Bedilia goes to work for
the Rogers family and when she arrives Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are out, but they
leave he a long list of things to do.
This is a recap of the story from "Amelia Bedelia"
Before setting to work, Amelia bakes her employers a lemon meringue
pie--she makes good pies. Then she sets to work.
"Change the towels in the bathroom," Mrs. Rogers has
written in script. "Those towels are very nice. Why change them?"
Amelia asks, but takes a pair of scissors to alter the towels' appearance as
she is (kind of) told. Then she sets the towels back on their dowel and moves
on down the list. She takes each task literally, from drawing the drapes on a
sketchpad, to putting the lights out… out in the yard. When Mrs. Rogers comes
home, she is very angry indeed. But naïve, endearing Amelia is proud of her
work, holding up her picture of the curtains for Mrs. Rogers to see.”
While this story is humorous, change seldom is. Change, whether transitional (step by step)
or transformational (creating something new and improved) causes stress. We are
creatures of habit. We tend to do the
same things, in the same way, over and over.
You have an opportunity to help Entrusted Legacy an opportunity to make
changes in the lives of youth and the role models and mentors that will support
them. It will require that you make some
changes, but together, we can make a difference—one life at a time. Join us in living Gandhi’s admonition to “Be
the change you wish to see.”
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