Shining Light

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, creative, talented, a visionary? Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

A little thought from a friend.

Where I've been

With so much excitement with the new year, Obama inaugurated in as President, and the looming danger of the U.S. economy. There will come a day when none of this will matter. It still may hold some significance, but it will never be as important as it it was when it was just happening. I look at my life and all the things I've been through from losing loved ones, family and friends. To my own loss of using my legs. To proud moments like graduating a University, or building a business. The pain and joy fades over time, but there is a seed in all events that tell us who we are and depending on how that seed is interpreted and acted upon determines how that memory will be remembered. Be it painful to think about or if it gives us a good feeling all over. And as I set out on this year long journey to find out who I am through who I want to be I want this day, this seed to say here is a man with a burning desire to reach for the stars and make his dreams reality.