Happy Monday!
Today is November 17, 2014...26 days from my 50th birthday on December 12th.
"There are two ways to live:
you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle."
One of my top 10 music artists, Prince, opens in "Let's Go Crazy" from the classic 80's movie, Purple Rain;
"We are gathered here today to get through this thing called...
Life.
Electric word...
Life."
Life is electric. It is dynamic. Let me put our life into some empirical perspectives:
The Population Reference Bureau says that since the beginning of time that approximately 107,000,000,000 people have been born.
The World Population Clock says there are 7,274,723,819 people alive on earth right now (it changes every second...literally!). This is powerful, interesting stuff...feel free to click! According to the same population clock (at the second I looked at it!), 98,000 worldwide miracles just took their first breath...and 40,000 took their last.
You and I are a miracle. Life is a miracle. The process is amazing, especially when viewed under the microscope of what goes in under the influence of Johnny Mathis and candlelight...and what comes out 9 months later!
One committed and focused sperm (yes, this is still a 'G" rated blog!) swam through poisonous environments, fought past billions of competititors and in a final gasp of life hits it's target...shutting the door to any other possibilities.
We are the result of a war...a battle...a fight to the death...and the victory?
Life.
Life is a miracle and a blessing. It is the result of a strong, fast, enduring seed hitting fertile ground.
Ahh, that is a metaphor for so many things as we take our next breath. A breath that provides the energy to pursue our dreams or push through our current trials. Realize that your life and that breath are a miracle, a process not to be taken lightly...or for granted.
A process that requires focus, strength, tenacity and single-minded purpose. In the Law of Sowing and Reaping, only good seed hitting good ground has any real chance to grow and return a harvest. Let's look at our lives and the "seed" we plant and the "ground" we put them in.
Only your real dreams will survive. All the casual wishes will die in poisonous environments or killed by competitors who are more focused and determined than you. What are your most precious dream seeds? Only those have a real chance to survive.
Only your most developed qualities will endure. You can feign character and integrity only for a season. Test, trials and temptations work to develop your character, but they will also reveal them. I have a saying,
"You never know a person's character
until you throw hot grits on them."
The singer, Al Green, went from singing R & B to singing Gospel after hot grits were thrown on him when his wife caught him cheating!
What character traits are a reflection of the real you? Only those inherent, developed qualities can be sustained...faking it robs you of precious energy. Your best chance for success and happiness is to be authentic.
You are a miracle that can produce other miracles. Sometimes our words are seeds that hit the good ground of people who need encouragement, advice or counsel that leads them to pursue their dreams or come through a trial.
Sometimes our deeds are seeds that help people in need. It might be a gift card of thanks, or a charitable gift that provides a welfare mother with a dress and a haircut for her first interview for a job that could change their life.
Sometimes our seed produces offspring. A miracle union of two people coming together to do the miraculous....creating another human being. That's what Alfred and Sara Clay did and on December 12, 1964 a child was born...
Meet Brandon L Clay...the miracle.
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 For a moment, think of what it took to get you here. Think of the process of Sowing and Reaping. The eternal progression of Seed...Time...Harvest.
Employ this process to everything in your life. If you want to see the Harvest...Plant the Seed. Don't hold it...plant it.
The odds may be against you, but the odds aren't what's important...plant that seed even if the odds are
1 in 107,000,000,000!
26 to 50!
Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success!
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