Expanded Horizons and the Miraculous

Good Morning!

I hope that your week has been full of "making meaningful and significant differences..."

There are a group of individuals that set themselves from the rest, but still fall short of "meaningful and significant" when it comes to real impact...

They fear full commitment to whatever they call their "expertise" and as a result stand on the sidelines and simply "consult."  They work diligently to get people to believe that what advice they have to offer is valuable (and it may very well be...), yet they do not vest themselves in the success of the effort...

They maintain an "arm's length" so as to protect their own reputation...that temple built upon a tenuous foundation of words and advice...rather than action...

Strive to put true substance and delivery of results, into your signature...

Words and promises are good...if you have to drag your effort over the finish-line totally by yourself...DO IT!

That group of people is not unlike many that I knew in high school that stood on the sidelines of football games (or any sporting activity...when I think about it)...and they probably do the same now...

They were incapable of playing...but definitely tried to take the right of criticism...

They were practicing to be "arm-chair quarterbacks" when they grew up and many of them also made a lucrative career of it as adults...

These were also the kids that stood in the hoard that surrounded the passionate kids that got into fights...wishing they had the guts and strength to do the same...they prodded the passionate on...took sides and ran at the first sight of trouble...

They talked BIG talk...but lacked substance...practicing for adulthood!

Instigators...and Initiators...but when alone or backed into a corner...they cried for help!

You get the picture...certain people never change...in fact they learned to make a living at it...

They are the ones who put a band-aid on someone once and call themselves a medical professional...hoping you'll misconstrue that into meaning that they were a doctor...

To be of value...you have to use what you have with courage...and pride...

Take your talent and grow it...just as you would do strengthening exercises for your body...

Refuse to sit on the sidelines...become the 1st string player...demanded and lauded...

You are capable...it just takes focus and persistence...and continual growth...

Enough said...

This week I had a chance to go camping at a great Florida State park, with the family...

It was a wonderful experience...

I reconnected with nature at a level that I never before experienced...and it caused me to grow!

It was late in the evening and I saw the reflection of a star in a bottle of water that was sitting on the picnic table at our campsite...

What struck me was that for me to see that simple reflection took millions of years, to make  (LITERALLY) and thousands of miracles!

The light left that star (in was Rigel, in the constellation of Orion) approximately 900 years ago.

That in and of itself...amazed me...

Then I began thinking about the miracle that amassed enough hydrogen and oxygen here on this planet to make the water that surrounded me in the ponds and rivers...and the water in that bottle!

Hydrogen existed since the very beginning of the universe...but oxygen is a second generation element...which means that the simple hydrogen and helium atoms needed to go through fusion to take it that level of complexity...

Then the two atoms had to find each other and bond...forming water...and find its way to our planet!

Most of the elements that make up our bodies are second generation...which means that they once resided in a star!  We are literally children of the stars!

All of those atoms had to make their way to the each...collect and find their way to our bodies...

Then I thought about the container...which was made of plastic...which comes from petroleum...which is made of atoms that made their way through stars to the earth...then became part of ancient animals...that died as a result of catastrophic event on the earth...(probably an asteroid collision...which itself is a miracle)...that amassed and we pumped it out of the earth and learned how to separate the hydro-carbons from the fluid...(crude oil) and refine it into plastic...

Another miracle...

Perhaps I think too much...but I have a deeper appreciation for the series of miracles that needed to take place just to get me to see that glint of reflected light...

AS I thought about that...I also thought about the series of miracles that it took just to get me to this place in my life...or simple just to get me here...

Do you realise that at one point in the human journey...there were as few as 40 child-bearing women on earth?  The human race was nearly wiped out by some catastrophic event too!  Your very existence is a miraculous chain of events!

I am so thankful to be able to participate in life!

It is that appreciation that makes "....making meaningful and significant differences..." all the more important to me...

It is that appreciation that should effect you...a miracle...

The odds were against us...and yet...we are here!

Live today and tomorrow with that thought...

It will change your life!

Enough said!

Have a great weekend!

Keep making differences!

Pura Vida!