Change Your Words, Change Your World

The words we choose to use can change the world around us.

One of the lessons I have learned in life is that if you change your words you can change the world around you. Picture this: You are walking down the street and pass a blind man sitting on the sidewalk. As you approach him you see on a cardboard sign the words” I am blind, please help.” You stand there for awhile and notice people are just walking by without giving him any money. The dollar you leave him just doesn’t seem to be enough to make up for all the people who gave nothing. On your way back from an errand you decide to walk by the blind man again to leave a more generous amount of money. As you round the corner you witness a large number of people leaving money in the coffee can  as if some one had told them to do so. A few steps closer and you see the reason why. Someone had changed the words on his sign to say “It is a beautiful day and I can’t see it.” When we change the words we use, we can often change a person's life.
Maybe if we took the time to change our negative words to more positive ones we could change the world around us. I know it can, you know it will.

America's Greatness

It seems that all we read and hear about are the insurmountable problems we have in America. What we need to do is to find and be a part of something much bigger than we are and the problems we face. I believe that ”bigger” is staring us right in the face and we cannot see her. She is America!

A few weeks ago my wife Debbie sent me her first picture ever of standing facing the Grand Canyon. The words attached to that message: “This brought me to tears”. It was at that moment that I realized what had happened to her. She had just experienced the thrill and vastness of something so much larger than all of us. We can only imagine. I wish I was there to share that moment with her. What she really experienced was the wonder and vastness of mother America. I am sure it also took her breath away.

We as a nation need to find that vastness and wonder in her; she is in trouble and needs us and we need her. She is and will always be the ”bigger” we will always need. This can only come from we the people. She belongs to us and we belong to her. Let the love affair begin. The time has come.

Get Back In The Race

In the media and  many social conversations today we seem to be comfortable with the understanding that we need to be discussing people as “generations”. Generation this, generation that,  and what each generation has and has not accomplished. This is a conversation that because all we seem to do is blame the OTHER generation for life as it is in the US today, will never be a conversation of action. I am a part of the “Men of a Certain Age” generation that seems to have given up and stopped carrying the torch that will help Americans to win the race. Who told you to give up and get out of the race? Who told you to give up your commitment to be a “Mighty Man”, for its ok  just the way things are? Things haven’t changed in American for at least the last 30 years. It is time for the” Men of a Certain Age”generation to  get back in the race and show the other generations what it means to be a man of Integrity and honor. Mighty men who used to stand for something and have decided it is better to sit. That it is ok for someone else to show us how to get the job done. Now is the time to wake up and be the generation of men who spark others to follow their lead. Through our life long commitment to help others, we will be that catalyst that will demonstrate through our actions that putting the needs of others before our own is what shapes a nation and builds a strong foundation. We men of a certain age MUST be the generation of truth and love. We are the last line of defence against all that seems to be going wrong in this greatest country in the world. Our time is now. If not now, when?

All We Need Is Love

All we need is love. Love will build a bridge between your heart and mine. The capability of loving is what defines us as humans. There is no greater love than he who is in me. Love is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, it has no end.

Just a bunch of words until we begin to live them every day of our lives.

Find someone who needs love and love them.