A Little Direction From the Big Man Upstairs...

I love how God emails me. I'm not being comical here, this was the email I found in my inbox this morning: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." -Galatians 6:9. Tell me that was NOT of God!?

In the car this AM I was listening to Bob and Shelly Kummer's CD and this was a paraphrase from her: "We have walls around our dreams and they're there for a reason. Not to keep us out, but rather to see how hard we're willing to fight for them." She also talked of a story about an occurrence between her and her daughter... She mentioned a line that I loved. Her daughter looked at her on the first morning that they went riding (after they bought their daughter a horse) and said, "Stop. Can you smell the saw dust???" They hadn't even reached the stable, and that was the first she said.

My favorite film is littered with dreams. Similar to the above, James Barrie in "Finding Neverland", while talking about his character Peter Pan to his theatre manager states this: "He [Peter Pan] imagines life the way he wants it to be, and he believes in it long enough and hard enough that it all appears before him, see?" If we speak our dreams into existence long enough and hard enough, and do what we can to work towards them, it is inevitable that we will achieve them.

Last night I watched a film entitled, "The Tale of Despereaux". Yes, it's a children's film about a mouse. However, this mouse was no ordinary mouse. He wouldn't cower, he was not afraid. There's a line where he's asked, "Are you a rat?" NO! is his reply, "Are you a mouse?" and after a moment of pondering he bows and says, "I am a gentleman." He battles his way throughout the film, and it's all on a dream, on standing for a cause bigger than himself...

So I ask you, are you a rat?
Are you a mouse?

Have you a cause?

Can you smell the saw dust?
I know I can, and I can see the stable ahead.

Build Your Crown!!!