You will never win the games that you don’t play. You will never make the shots you refuse to take. Success is a product of the decisions you make, the risks you take, the networks you generate, and the opportunities you create.” – Dr. Jevonnah Ellison
Photo Courtesy of Bruce R. Cross
We live in a very connected world.
“Thanks for such a profound statement, Captain Obvious”, might be a thought going through your mind at the moment.
Online banking – smart phones – digital transfers – Apple Pay – PayPal – uploads, and downloads are all terms which could have jumped off the pages of an episode of the Jetsons a generation ago.
May I digress a little and share some personal thoughts with you?
If it’s OK, I’d like to kick off my shoes, get comfy, and simply relax from a reasonably trying week or so.
As I sat down to write it was like being at the starting line of a race, hearing the gun go off, and not being able to move a muscle instead of running the race.
Unless you were transported to another universe or you dwell in a cave, you had to have at least read or heard the words “Super Bowl 49” during the past two weeks.
Most specifically, a lot of people watched the 2015 Super Bowl in what is arguably considered America’s penultimate sporting event.
I have noticed the billboard on several occasions during my travels over the past few months between my home and Harrisburg, seventy five miles to the south of us.
The billboards are part of an advertising campaign for a regional health insurance company.
Have you ever been to a concert or symphony where the musical experience left you speechless and overflowing with emotions, totally overwhelming you?
I’ve had this experience a few times in my life.
God’s treasure…is like an infinite ocean…yet a little wave of feeling, passing with the moment, contents us…when He finds a soul permeated with a living faith, He pours into it His graces and His favours plenteously…into the soul they flow like a torrent.” – Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence (June 1, 1682)
Photo Courtesy of Bruce R. Cross
We all love to take pictures of our children.
Pictures are snapshots in time of what our children looked like at a certain age or an image marking a significant event like a birth, the day they took their first steps, hitting their first homerun, a graduation, or their wedding day.
Pictures are static or in other words, moments frozen in time.
The Christmas lights have been removed from outside our homes (or are frozen to the ground!), the ornaments have been carefully packed away, other decorations will live to see the light of day in about eleven months, and the tree minus many needles has been hauled away.
I cannot speak for you, but there are many things wrapped in the package called everyday life which I take for granted.