For Many Of Us...
One Of Our Last Rational Thoughts That We Have...
Before We Die
And Cross Over
[Victorious?]
The Finish Line From This Life Into The Next...
Is To Dare To Look Back Over The Course Of Our LIFE...
The "RACE" That We Had Just Run...
Complete With Whatever Kind Of
Discipline We Employed,
Strength We Exercised
And Heart That We Exerted...
And We Look Deep, Deep Inside
And Ask Ourselves...
[In A Voice With Quiet Intensity]
"Could WE Have Done Qualitatively Better?"
"Could WE Have Given More?"
"Did WE Give It ALL away?"
AS WE RAN WITH THOSE WHO RAN WITH US...
[That We Said We Loved]
"Did My Great Commitments In Life
Spur My COMPANIONS
To GREATNESS In Their Life?"
Perhaps... We Are Secretly TERRIFIED
[That Maybe, Just Maybe]
That During The Course Of OUR Life
Our MOST Faithful and Closest COMPANION Was
The Specter Named: "MEDIOCRITY"
Who Was Mantled Around Us The Entire Time...
rsg 1/26/2010
(1 Cor. 3:12-15)
The Great Swiss Psychologist
Paul Tournier Said:
Most People Spend Their Entire Lives
Indefinitely Preparing To Live...