Thanks Jim for your comments about the Fifth City Model.  The mantra that kept me going throughout our community development and social demonstrations engagement.....and for the remainder of my days was "Not tied to the outcome".

Growing up in Texas, one of my favorite country western songs was a Dottie West song which came to my mind as I was reading your comment:  "I Didn't Promise You a Rose Garden": 

Lyrics as follows & youtube with Lynn Anderson singing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ

I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometimes
When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go

I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
I could promise you things like big diamond rings
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover so you better think it over
When it's sweet talking you could make it come true
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter but what would it matter
So smile for a while and let's be jolly love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometimes
I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
But if that's what it takes to hold you I'd just as soon let you go
But there's one thing I want you to know
Look before you leap still waters run deep
And there won't always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I'm talking about
So smile for a while...
I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden

Grace & Peace

Wanda