Dream the Dream; Remember The Goal
It's so easy to get caught up in the everyday struggle just to maintain. Sometimes we forget what lured us to look for change in the first place. I do believe that if Americans that rallied together back in the 70's had stayed motivated, we would be in a much better place in the world of energy than we are today. Of course, we have the advantage of the internet to connect us with one another now. This great invention was not available to the visionaries back in the day. Since the technology exists to break the geographical barriers that hamper communications, and we have people of wealth and influence on the team, what more do we need either than our own will and strength? Complacency is our worst enemy. Necessity exists and we all know what Plato said about Necessity and Invention.
Make no mistake about it, folks, necessity is here. Money seems to be irrelevant when weighed against world stability and our own national security issues. If Iran were so inclined, they could block the Strait of Hormuz and cut off the flow of the world’s oil supply to everyone except their own friends: China and Russia. Our national independence is only an idea today. If we were to sever our dependence upon foreign oil and foreign products, we could reclaim the substance of that ideal.
It’s funny how things change. I had lunch with my college freshman daughter today. Last year at this time, she was worried about meeting the demands of high school band and choir along with the concerns of a typical teenager. Now she seems to be thinking about what kind of future a young person will in the worst-case-scenario-economy. She asked me what career would still be available if she were to graduate college in a depressed economy. This being quite out of the ordinary of the typical lunch conversation, I was taken aback. With hindsight, I categorize her latest inquiry right up there with topics like “The Birds and the Bees and “Why did God make the Sky Blue?” I was not quite so discerning at the spur of the moment. She wants to be a choir director. She was throwing out the applications of the education that she will have acquired in a little less than four years. So, like the blind oaf that I am, I recommended that she look to the church for solid employment.
Never before have I been so wrong on so many levels. Firstly, if one is called to ministry in the church, God doesn’t necessarily wait for a depression to do it. He calls people everyday. More importantly, while I answered the question posed to me, I did not address the underlying reservations that she has in regards to her chosen direction of education. What I should have said was, “Don’t worry honey. There will always be a place in this world for music. What you choose to follow and what call you answer is between you and God. You need to remember your dreams, your goals and your aspirations. Don’t forget what you went to school to do.” Obviously, I need a “Do-Over” with this conversation.
Well, we have a chance at a “Do-Over” with our energy problems. We are poised to recreate our way of life as we know it. We have the opportunity to rise above our economic and worldly woes. We can kill two birds with one stone.
Let’s not stop dreaming up better ways to move forward. Let’s look beyond the costs of intial investment (for it will cost us far more if we don’t invest in the alternatives.) Let’s not forget what we joined with one another to accomplish. Embrace the challenge and remember the goal!
Make no mistake about it, folks, necessity is here. Money seems to be irrelevant when weighed against world stability and our own national security issues. If Iran were so inclined, they could block the Strait of Hormuz and cut off the flow of the world’s oil supply to everyone except their own friends: China and Russia. Our national independence is only an idea today. If we were to sever our dependence upon foreign oil and foreign products, we could reclaim the substance of that ideal.
It’s funny how things change. I had lunch with my college freshman daughter today. Last year at this time, she was worried about meeting the demands of high school band and choir along with the concerns of a typical teenager. Now she seems to be thinking about what kind of future a young person will in the worst-case-scenario-economy. She asked me what career would still be available if she were to graduate college in a depressed economy. This being quite out of the ordinary of the typical lunch conversation, I was taken aback. With hindsight, I categorize her latest inquiry right up there with topics like “The Birds and the Bees and “Why did God make the Sky Blue?” I was not quite so discerning at the spur of the moment. She wants to be a choir director. She was throwing out the applications of the education that she will have acquired in a little less than four years. So, like the blind oaf that I am, I recommended that she look to the church for solid employment.
Never before have I been so wrong on so many levels. Firstly, if one is called to ministry in the church, God doesn’t necessarily wait for a depression to do it. He calls people everyday. More importantly, while I answered the question posed to me, I did not address the underlying reservations that she has in regards to her chosen direction of education. What I should have said was, “Don’t worry honey. There will always be a place in this world for music. What you choose to follow and what call you answer is between you and God. You need to remember your dreams, your goals and your aspirations. Don’t forget what you went to school to do.” Obviously, I need a “Do-Over” with this conversation.
Well, we have a chance at a “Do-Over” with our energy problems. We are poised to recreate our way of life as we know it. We have the opportunity to rise above our economic and worldly woes. We can kill two birds with one stone.
Let’s not stop dreaming up better ways to move forward. Let’s look beyond the costs of intial investment (for it will cost us far more if we don’t invest in the alternatives.) Let’s not forget what we joined with one another to accomplish. Embrace the challenge and remember the goal!
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