Sometimes I feel a little bit like Lucy in the popular Peanuts cartoon. In this comic strip Lucy is looking out the window of her home and watches it rain. She yells: “STUPID WEATHER!”

As she turns back in to the house, Linus asks her: “Are you complaining again? Do you realize that you spend all your time complaining?”

Next panel Lucy responds to Linus: “Why shouldn’t I complain?”

Then adds: “It’s the only thing I’m good at!”

Some of us feel that way from time to time. All we do is complain. But some of us have learned that complaining doesn’t do any good. You actually have to do something about it.

That’s what John Adams did when he couldn’t attend the Constitutional Convention because he was in England and the Minister of Commerce. So he complained a little to Abigail, but then he went to work and wrote a book. “A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States of America.” That became the most widely read and quoted book at the Convention!