A local television station has omitted the use of a commercial during one hourly break and has featured a spot announcement called Reach Out. It is a simple challenge to their viewers to reach out with all their affluence and resources to someone in need - the homeless, the friendless, the confused in mind and soul - and especially to bridge the gap between race and race, class and class, creed and creed.

A question can be raised appropriately: To what and with what? And any answer must work both ways. Any reaching out must be a mutual action. The person in need must reach out with his or her claims as fully as the person with answers and resources should do in their response. Only when the two meet in mutual acceptance will there be fullness of life for both.

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