Now, problem solving is a useful skill. But problem solving disconnected from visions and dreams leads to diminished human possibilities. Problems and dreams motivate in different ways. When I am turned toward problems, my interest is to eliminate them. When I am turned toward dreams, my interest is to realize them.
American history is replete with attempts at reform.
Martin Luther King knew we had lots of problems in America, but he had a dream which pointed the direction toward which America needed to move. Problems abound, and without vision we muck around without direction. Restorative justice is rooted in the Hebrew Christian tradition in both its concept and its visionary form of thinking. When God's Spirit came on those early believers back in the book of Acts, it was not said of them that they suddenly became great problem solvers. Rather, they became visionaries and dreamers.