THE GOD MEMORANDUM
TO: YOU (Youth Organizations & Universities)
FROM: GOD
TAKE COUNSEL.
I HEAR YOUR CRY.
IT PASSES THROUGH THE DARKNESS, FILTERS THROUGH THE CLOUDS, MINGLES WITH STARLIGHT, & FINDS ITS WAY TO MY HEART ON THE PATH OF A SUNBEAM.
I HAVE ANGUISHED OVER THE CRY OF A HARE CHOKED IN THE NOOSE OF A SNARE, A SPARROW TUMBLED FROM THE NEST OF ITS MOTHER, A CHILD THRASHING HELPLESSLY IN A POND, & A SON SHEDDING HIS BLOOD ON A CROSS.
KNOW THAT I HEAR YOU, ALSO. BE AT PEACE. BE CALM.
I BRING THEE RELIEF FOR YOUR SORROW FOR I KNOW ITS CAUSE...& ITS CURE.
YOU WEEP FOR ALL YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAMS THAT HAVE VANISHED WITH THE YEARS.
YOU WEEP FOR ALL YOUR SELF-ESTEEM THAT HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY FAILURE.
YOU WEEP FOR ALL YOUR POTENTIAL THAT HAS BEEN BATTERED FOR SECURITY.
YOU WEEP FOR ALL YOUR INDIVIDUALITY THAT HAS BEEN TRAMPLED BY MOBS.
YOU WEEP FOR ALL YOUR TALENT THAT HAS BEEN WASTED THROUGH MISUSE.
YOU LOOK UPON YOURSELF WITH DISGRACE AND YOU TURN IN TERROR FROM THE IMAGE YOU SEE IN THE POOL. WHO IS THIS MOCKERY OF HUMANITY STARING BACK AT YOU WITH BLOODLESS EYES OF SHAME?
WHERE IS THE GRACE OF YOUR MANNER, THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FIGURE, THE QUICKNESS OF YOUR MOVEMENT, THE CLARITY OF YOUR MIND, THE BRILLIANCE OF YOUR TONGUE? WHO STOLE YOUR GOODS? IS THE THIEF'S IDENTITY KNOWN TO YOU, AS IT IS TO ME?
ONCE YOU PLACED YOUR HEAD IN A PILLOW OF GRASS IN YOUR FATHER'S FIELD AND LOOKED UP AT A CATHEDRAL OF CLOUDS & KNEW THAT ALL THE GOLD OF BABYLON WOULD BE YOURS IN TIME.
ONCE YOU READ FROM MANY BOOKS & WROTE ON MANY TABLETS, CONVINCED BEYOND ANY DOUBT THAT ALL THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON WOULD BE EQUALED & SURPASSED BY YOU.
& THE SEASONS WOULD FLOW INTO YEARS UNTIL LO, YOU WOULD REIGN SUPREME IN YOUR OWN GARDEN OF EDEN. DOST THOU REMEMBER WHO IMPLANTED THOSE PLANS AND DREAMS AND SEEDS OF HOPE WITHIN YOU?
YOU CAN.
YOU HAVE MEMORY OF THAT MOMENT WHEN FIRST YOU EMERGED FROM YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB & I PLACED MY HAND ON YOUR SOFT BROW. & THE SECRET I WHISPERED IN YOUR SMALL EAR WHEN I BESTOWED MY BLESSINGS UPON YOU? REMEMBER OUR SECRET?
YOU CAN.
THE PASSING YEARS HAVE DESTROYED YOUR RECOLLECTION, FOR THEY HAVE FILLED YOUR MIND WITH FEAR & DOUBT & ANXIETY & REMORSE & HATE & THERE IS NO ROOM FOR JOYFUL MEMORIES WHERE THESE BEASTS HABITATE.
WEEP NO MORE. I AM W/ YOU... & THIS MOMENT IS THE DIVIDING LINE OF YOUR LIFE. ALL THAT HAS GONE BEFORE IS LIKE UNTO NO MORE THAN THAT TIME YOU SLEPT WITHIN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB. WHAT IS PAST IS DEAD. LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD.
THIS DAY YOU RETURN FROM THE LIVING DEAD.
THIS DAY, LIKE UNTO ELIJAH WITH THE WIDOW'S SON, I STRETCH MYSELF UPON THEE 3 TIMES AND YOU LIVE AGAIN.
THIS DAY, LIKE UNTO ELISHA WITH THE SHUNAMMITE'S SON, I PUT MY MOUTH UPON YOUR MOUTH & MY EYES UPON YOUR EYES & MY HANDS UPON YOUR HANDS & YOUR FLESH IS WARM AGAIN.
THIS DAY, LIKE UNTO JESUS AT THE TOMB OF LAZARUS, I COMMAND YOU TO COME FORTH & YOU WILL WALK FROM YOUR CAVE OF DOOM TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE.
THIS IS YOUR BIRTHDAY. THIS IS YOUR NEW DATE OF BIRTH. YOUR FIRST LIFE, LIKE UNTO A PLAY OF THE THEATRE, WAS ONLY A REHEARSAL. THIS TIME THE CURTAIN IS UP. THE TIME THE WORLD WATCHES AND WAITS TO APPLAUD. THIS TIME YOU WILL NOT FAIL.
LIGHT YOUR CANDLES. SHARE YOUR CAKE. POUR THE WINE. YOU HAVE BEEN REBORN.
LIKE A BUTTERFLY FROM ITS CHRYSALIS YOU WILL FLY... FLY AS HIGH AS YOU WISH, AND NEITHER THE WASPS NOR DRAGONFLIES NOR MANTIDS OF MANKIND SHALL OBSTRUCT YOUR MISSION OR YOUR SEARCH FOR THE TRUE RICHES OF LIFE.
FEEL MY HAND UPON THY HEAD.
ATTEND TO MY WISDOM.
LET ME SHARE WITH YOU, AGAIN, THE SECRET YOU HEARD AT YOUR BIRTH & FORGOT.
YOU ARE MY GREATEST MIRACLE.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD.
THOSE WERE THE FIRST WORDS YOU EVER HEARD. THEN YOU CRIED. THEY ALL CRY.
YOU DID NOT BELIEVE ME THEN... & NOTHING HAS HAPPENED IN THE INTERVENING YEARS TO CORRECT YOUR DISBELIEF. FOR HOW COULD YOU BE A MIRACLE WHEN YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A FAILURE AT THE MOST MENIAL OF TASKS?
HOW CAN YOU BE A MIRACLE WHEN YOU HAVE LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN DEALING WITH THE MOST TRIVIAL OF RESPONSIBILITIES? HOW CAN YOU BE A MIRACLES WHEN YOU ARE SHACKLED BY DEBT AND LIE AWAKE IN TORMENT OVER WHENCE WILL COME TOMORROW'S BREAD?
ENOUGH.
THE MILK THAT IS SPILLED IS SOUR. YET, HOW MANY PROPHETS, HOW MANY WISE MEN, HOW MANY POETS, HOW MANY ARTISTS, HOW MANY COMPOSERS, HOW MANY SCIENTISTS, HOW MANY PHILOSOPHERS AND MESSENGERS HAVE I SENT WITH WORD OF YOUR DIVINITY, YOUR POTENTIAL FOR GODLINESS, AND THE SECRETS OF ACHIEVEMENT? HOW DID YOU TREAT THEM?
STILL I LOVE YOU AND I AM WITH YOU NOW, THROUGH THESE WORDS, TO FULFILL THE PROPHET WHO ANNOUNCED THAT THE LORD SHALL SET HIS HAND AGAIN, THE 2ND TIME, TO RECOVER THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE.
I HAVE SET MY HAND AGAIN.
THIS IS THE SECOND TIME.
YOU ARE MY REMNANT.
IT IS OF NO AVAIL TO ASK, HAVEN'T YOU KNOWN, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD, HASN'T IT BEEN TOLD TO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING; HAVEN'T YOU UNDERSTOOD FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH?
YOU HAVE KNOWN; YOU HAVE HEARD; YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD.
YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT YOU ARE SPECIAL PIECE OF WORK, NOBLE INREASON, INFINITE IN FACULTIES, EXPRESS & ADMIRABLE IN FORM AND MOVING, LIKE AN ANGEL IN ACTION, LIKE A GOD PLAYING A FOOL.
YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH.
YOU WERE GIVEN THE SECRET EVEN OF MOVING MOUNTAINS, OF PERFORMING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
YOU BELIEVED NO ONE. YOU BURNED YOUR MAP TO HAPPINESS, YOU ABANDONED YOUR CLAIM TO PEACE OF MIND, YOU SNUFFED OUT THE CANDLES THAT HAD BEEN PLACED ALONG YOUR DESTINED PATH OF GLORY, AND THEN YOU STUMBLED, LOST AND FRIGHTENED IN THE DARKNESS OF FUTILITY AND SELF-PITY, UNTIL YOU FELL INTO A HELL OF YOUR OWN CREATION.
THEN YOU CRIED AND BEAT YOUR BREAST AND CURSED THE LUCK THAT HAD BEFALLEN YOU. YOU REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR OWN PETTY THOUGHTS & LAZY DEEDS & YOU SEARCHED FOR A SCAPEGOAT ON WHICH TO BLAME YOUR FAILURE. HOW QUICKLY YOU FOUND ONE.
YOU BLAMED ME!
YOU CRIED THAT YOUR HANDICAPS, YOUR MEDIOCRITY, YOUR LACK OPPORTUNITY, YOUR FAILURES... WERE THE WILL OF GOD!
YOU WERE WRONG!
LET US TAKE INVENTORY. LET US, FIRST, CALL A ROLL OF YOUR HANDICAPS. FOR HOW CAN I ASK YOU TO BUILD A NEW LIFE LEST YOU HAVE THE TOOLS?
ARE YOU BLIND? DOES THE SUN RISE AND FALL WITHOUT YOUR WITNESS?
YES. YOU CAN SEE. DISCOVER THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND WORDS & THE HUNDRED MILLION RECEPTORS I HAVE PLACED IN YOUR EYES ENABLE YOU TO ENJOY THE MAGIC OF A LEAF, A SNOWFLAKE, A POND, AN EAGLE, A CHILD, A CLOUD, A STAR, A ROSE, A RAINBOW... AND THE LOOK OF LOVE. COUNT 1 BLESSING.
ARE YOU DEAF? CAN A BABY LAUGH OR CRY WITHOUT YOUR ATTENTION?
YES. YOU CAN HEAR...AND THE 24,000 FIBERS I HAVE BUILT IN EACH OF YOUR EARS VIBRATE TO THE TO THE WIND IN THE TREES, THE TIDES ON THE ROCKS, THE MAJESTY OF AN OPERA A ROBIN'S PLEA, CHILDREN AT PLAY... & THE WORDS I LOVE YOU. COUNT ANOTHR BLESSING.
ARE YOU MUTE? DO YOUR LIPS MOVE AND BRING FORTH ONLY SPITTLE?
YES. YOU CAN SPEAK... AS CAN NO OTHER OF MY CREATURES, AND YOUR WORDS CAN CALM THE ANGRY, UPLIFT THE DESPONDENTS, GOAD THE QUITTER, CHEER THE UNHAPPY, WARM THE LONELY, PRAISE THE WORTHY, ENCOURAGE THE DEFATD, TEACH THE IGNORANT... AND SAY I LOVE YOU. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
ARE YOU PARALYZED? DOES YOUR HELPLESS FORM DESPOIL THE LAND?
YES. YOU CAN MOVE. YOU ARE NOT A MTREE CONDEMNED TO A SMALL PLOT WHILE THE WIND AND WORLD ABUSES YOU. YOU CAN STRETCH AND RUN AND DANCE AND WORK, FOR WITHIN YOU I HAVE DESIGNED 500 MUSCLES, 2 HUNDRED BONES, & 7 MILES OF NERVE FIBRE ALL SYNCHRONIZED BY ME TO DO YOUR BIDDING. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
ARE YOU UNLOVED AND UNLOVING? DOES LONELINESS ENGULF YOU, NIGHT AND DAY?
NO. NO MORE. FOR NOW YOU KNOW LOVE'S SECRET, THAT TO RECEIVE LOVE IT MUST BE GIVEN WITH NO THOUGHT OF ITS RETURN. TO LOVE FOR FULFILLMENT, SATISFACTION, OR PRIDE IS NO LOVE. LOVE IS A GIFT ON WHICH NO RETURN IS DEMANDED. NOW YOU KNOW THAT TO LOVE UNSELFISHLY IS ITS OWN REWARD. & EVEN SHOULD LOVE NOT BE RETURNED IT IS NOT LOST, FOR LOVE NOT RECIPROCATED WILL FLOW BACK TO YOU AND SOFTEN AND PURIFY YOUR HEART. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING. COUNT TWICE.
IS YOUR HEART STRICKEN? DOES IT LEAK AND STRAIN TO MAINTAIN YOUR LIFE?
KNOW. YOUR HEART IS STRONG. TOUCH YOUR CHEST AND FEEL ITS RHYTHM, PULSATING, HOUR AFTER HOUR, DAY AND NIGHT, 36 MILLION BEATS EACH YEAR, YEAR AFTER YEAR, ASLEEP OR AWAKE, PUMPING MORE THAN 6,000 GALLONS EACH YEAR. MAN HAS NEVER CREATED SUCH A MACHINE. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
ARE YOU DISEASES OF SKIN? DO PEOPLE TURN IN HORROR WHEN YOU APPROACH?
KNOW. YOUR SKIN IS CLEAR & A MARVEL OF CREATION, NEEDING ONLY THAT YOU TEND IT WITH SOAP & OIL & BRUSH & CARE. IN TIME ALL STEELS WILL TARNISH AND RUST, BUT NOT YOUR SKIN. EVENTUALLY THE STRONGEST OF METALS WILL WEAR, WITH USE, BUT NOT THAT LAYER THAT I HAVE CONSTRUCTED AROUND YOU. CONSTANLTY IT RENEWS ITSELF, OLD CELLS REPLACED BY THE NEW. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
ARE YOUR LUNGS BEFOULED? DOES THE BREATH OF LIFE STRUGGLED TO ENTER YOUR BODY?
KNOW. YOUR PORTHOLES TO LIFE SUPPORT YOU EVEN IN THE VILEST OF ENVIRONMENTS OF YOUR OWN MAKING, AND THEY LABOR ALL WAYS TO FILTER LIFE-GIVING OXYGEN THROUGH 600,000,000 POCKETS OF FOLDED FLESH WHILE THEY RID YOUR BODY OF GASEOUS WASTES. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
IS YOUR BLOOD POISONED? IS IT DILUTED WITH WATER AND PUS?
KNOW. WITHIN YOUR 5 QUARTS OF BLOOD ARE 22,000,000,000,000 BLOOD CELLS & WITHIN EACH MOLECULE IS AN ATOM OSCILLATING AT MORE THAN 10,000,000 TIMES EACH SECOND. EACH SECOND, 2,000,000 OF YOUR BLOOD CELLS DIE TO BE REPLACED BY 2,000,000 MORE IN A RESURRECTION THAT HAS CONTINUED SINCE YOUR FIRST BIRTH. AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN INSIDE, SO NOW IT IS ON YOUR OUTSIDE. COUNT ANOTHER BLESSING.
ARE YOU FEEBLE OF MIND? CAN YOU NO LONGER THINK FOR YOURSELF?
KNOW. YOUR BRAIN IS THE MOST COMPLEX STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE. I KNOW. WITHIN ITS 3 POUNDS ARE 13,000,000,000 NERVE CELLS, MORE THAN 3 TIMES AS MANY CELLS AS THERE ARE PEOPLE ON YOUR EARTH. TO HELP YOU FILE AWAY EVERY PERCEPTION, EVERY SOUND, EVERY TASTE, EVERY SMELL, VERY ACTION YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED SINCE THE DAY OF YOUR BIRTH, I HAVE IMPLANTED, WITHIN YOUR CELLS, MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND BILLION PROTEIN MOLECULES. EVERY INCIDENT IN YOUR LIFE IS THERE WAITING ONLY YOUR RECALL. &, TO ASSIST YOUR BRAIN IN THE CONTROL OF YOUR BODY I HAVE DISPERSED, THROUGHOUT YOUR FORM, 4,000,000 PAIN-SENSITIVE STRUCTURES, AND MORE THAN 200,000 TOUCH DETECTORS, AND MORE THAN 200,000 TEMPERATURE DETECTORS.
YOU ARE MY FINEST CREATION.
WITHIN YOU IS ENOUGH ATOMIC ENERGY TO DESTROY ANY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES... & REBUILD IT.
ARE YOU POOR? IS THERE NO GOLD OR SILVER IN YOUR PURSE?
KNOW THAT YOU ARE RICH! TOGETHER WE HAVE JUST COUNTED YOUR WEALTH. STUDY THE LIST. COUNT THEM AGAN. TALLY YOUR ASSETS!
WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED YOURSELF? WHY HAVE YOU CRIED THAT ALL THE BLESSINGS OF HUMANITY WERE REMOVED FROM YOU? WHY DID YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF THAT YOU WERE POWERLESS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU WITHOUT TALENT, SENSES ABILITIES, PLEASURES INSTINCTS, SENSATIONS, AND PRIDE? ARE YOU WITHOUT HOPE? WHY DO YOU CRINGE IN THE SHADOWS, A GIANT DEFEATED, AWAITING ONLY SYMPATHETIC TRANSPORT INTO THE WELCOME VOID AND DAMPNESS OF HELL?
YOU HAVE SO MUCH. YOUR BLESSINGS OVERFLOW YOUR CUP... AND YOU HAVE BEEN UNMINDFUL OF THEM, LIKE A CHILD SPOILED IN LUXURY, SINCE I HAVE BESTOWED THEM UPON YOU WITH GENEROSITY ON REGULARITY.
ANSWER ME.
ANSWER YOURSELF.
WHAT RICH MAN, OLD AND SICK, FEEBLE AND HELPLESS, WOULD NOT EXCHANGE ALL THE GOLD IN HIS VAULT FOR THE BLESSINGS YOU HAVE TREATED SO LIGHTLY.
KNOW THEN THE FIRST SECRET TO HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS--THAT YOU POSSESS, EVEN NOW, EVERY BLESSING NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE GREAT GLORY. THEY ARE YOUR TREASURE, YOUR TOOLS WITH WHICH TO BUILD, STARTING TODAY, THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AND BETTER LIFE.
THEREFORE, I SAY UNTO YOU, COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS AND KNOW THAT YOU ALREADY ARE MY GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD, THE RETURN OF YOUR HUMANITY FROM LIVING DEATH.
AND BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LESSONS LEARNED IN POVERTY. FOR HE IS NOT POOR WHO HAS LITTLE; ONLY HE THAT DESIRES MUCH... & THE TRUE SECURITY LIES NOT IN THE THINGS ONE HAS BUT IN THE THINGS ONE CAN DO WITHOUT.
WHERE ARE THE HANDICAPS THAT PRODUCED YOUR FAILURE? THEY EXISTED ONLY IN YOUR MIND.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.
AND THE 2ND LAW IS LIKE UNTO THE 1ST. PROCLAIM YOUR RARITY.
YOU HAD CONDEMNED YOURSELF TO A POTTER'S FIELD, & THERE YOU LAY, UNABLE TO FOGIVE YOUR FAILURES, YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, YOUR PITIFUL DEMEANOR... WHEN YOU CANNOT FORGIVE YOURSELF?
I ADDRESS YOU NOW, FOR 3 REASONS. YOU NEED ME. YOU ARE NOT ONE OF A HERD HEADING FOR DESTRUCTION IN A GRAY MASS OF MEDIOCRITY. AND... YOU ARE A GREAT RARITY.
CONSIDER A PAINTING BY REMBRANDT OR A BRONZE BY DEGAS OR A VIOLIN BY STRADIVARIUS OR A PLAY BY SHAKESPEARE. THEY HAVE GREAT VALUE FOR 2 REASONS: THEIR CREATORS WERE MASTERS AND THEY ARE FEW IN NUMBER.
YET THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE OF EACH OF THESE.
ON THAT REASONING YOU ARE THE MOST VALUABLE TREASURE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH , FOR YOU KNOW WHO CREATED YOU & THERE IS ONLY 1 OF YOU. NEVER, IN ALL THE 70,000,000 HUMANS WHO HAVE WALKED THIS PLANET SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME HAS NEVER BEEN ANYONE EXACTLY LIKE YOU.
NEVER, UNTIL THE END OF TIME, WILL THERE BE ANOTHER SUCH AS YOU.
YOU SHOWN KNOWLEDGE & APPRECIATION OF YOUR UNIQUENESS.
YOU ARE THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD.
FROM YOUR FATHER, IN HIS MOMENT OF SUPREME LOVE, FLOWED COUNTLESS SEEDS OF LOVE MORE THAN 400,000,000 IN NUMBER. ALL OF THEM, AS THEY SWAM WITHIN YOUR MOTHER, GAVE UP THE GHOST AND DIED. ALL EXCEPT 1!
YOU.
YOU ALONE PERSEVERED WITHIN THE LOVING WARMTH OF YOUR MOTHER'S BODY, SEARCHING FOR YOUR OTHER HALF, A SINGLE CELL FROM YOUR MOTHER SO SMALL THAT MORE THAN 2,000,000 WOULD BE NECESSARY TO FILL AN ACORN SHELL. YET, DESPITE IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, IN THAT VAST OCEAN OF DARKNESS AND DISASTER, YOU PERSEVERED, FOUND THAT INFINITESMAL CALL, JOINED WITH IT, AND BEGAN A NEW LIFE.
YOUR LIFE.
YOU ARRIVED, BRINGING WITH YOU, AS DOES EVERY CHILD, THE MESSAGE THAT I WAS NOT YET DISCOURAGED OF MAN. 2 CELLS NOW UNITED IN A MIRACLE. 2 CELLS, EACH CONTAINING 23 CHROMOSOMES AND WITHIN EACH CHROMOSOME HUNDREDS OF GENES, WHICH WOULD GOVERN EVERY CHARACTERISTIC ABOUT YOU, FROM THE COLOR OF YOUR EYES TO THE CHARM OF YOUR MANNER, TO THE SIZE OF YOUR BRAIN.
WITH ALL THE COMBINATIONS AT MY COMMAND, BEGINNING WITH THAT SINGLE SPERM FROM YOUR FATHER'S 400,000,000, THROUGH THE HUNDREDS OF GENES IN EACH OF THE CHROMOSOMES FROM YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER, ANGEL AND RICHARD, I COULD HAVE CREATED 300,000,000,000,000 HUMANS, EACH DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER.
BUT WHO DID I BRING FORTH?
YOU!
ONE OF A KIND.
RAREST OF THE RARE.
A PRICELESS TREASURE, POSSESSED OF QUALITIES IN MIND & SPEECH & MOVEMENT & APPEARANCE & ACTIONS AS NO OTHER WHO HAS EVER LIVED, LIVES, OR SHALL LIVE.
WHY HAVE YOU VALUED YOURSELF IN PENNIES WHEN YOU ARE WORTH A KING'S RANSOM?
WHY DID YOU LISTEN TO THOSE WHO DEMEANED YOU... AND FAR WORSE, WHY DID YOU BELIEVE THEM?
TAKE COUNSEL. NO LONGER HIDE YOU RARITY IN THE DARK. BRING IT FORTH. SHOW THE WORLD. STRIVE NOT TO WAK AS YOUR BROTHER WALKS, NOR TALK AS YOUR LEADER TALKS, NOR LABOR AS DO THE MEDIOCRE. NEVER DO AS ANOTHER. NEVER IMITATE. FOR HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU MAY NOT IMITATE EVIL; AND HE WHO IMITATES EVIL ALWAYS GOES BEYOND THE EXAMPLE SET, WHILE HE WHO IMITATES WHAT IS GOOD ALL WAYS. IMITATE NO ONE. BE YOURSELF. SHOW YOUR RARITY TO THE WORLD AND THEY WILL SHOWER YOU WITH GOLD. THIS THEN IS THE 2ND LAW.
PROCLAIM YOUR RARITY.
AND NOW YOU HAVE RECEIVED 2 LAWS.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS! PROCLAIM YOUR RARITY!
YOU HAVE NO HANDICAPS. YOU ARE NOT MEDIOCRE.
YOU NOD. YOU FORCE A SMILE. YOU ADMIT YOUR SELF-DECEPTION.
WHAT OF YOUR NEXT COMPLAINT? OPPORTUNITY NEVER SEEKS THEE?
TAKE COUNSEL AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, FOR NOW I GIVE YOU THE LAW OF SUCCESS IN EVERY VENTURE. MANY CENTURIES AGO THIS LAW WAS GIVEN TO YOUR FOREFATHERS FROM A MOUNTAIN TOP. SOME HEEDED THE LAW AND LO, THEIR LIFE WAS FILLED WITH THE FRUIT OF HAPPINESS, ACCOMPLISHMENT, GOLD, AND PEACE OF MIND. MOST LISTENED NOT, FOR THEY SOUGHT MAGIC MEANS, DEVIOUS ROUTES, OR WAITED FOR THE DEVIL CALLED LUCK TO DELIVER TO THEM THE RICHES OF LIFE. THEY WAITED, AND THEN THEY WEPT, AS YOU WEPT, BLAMING THEIR LACK OF FORTUNE ON MY WILL.
THE LAW IS SIMPLE. YOUNG OR OLD PAUPER OR KING, WHITE OR BLACK, MALE OR FEMALE...ALL CAN USE THE SECRET TO THEIR ADVANTAGE; FOR OF ALL THE RULES & SPEECHES & SCRIPTURES OF SUCCESS & HOW TO ATTAIN IT, ONLY 1 METHOD HAS NEVER FAILED...WHOMSOEVER SHALL COMPEL YE TO GO WITH HIM 1 MILE...GO WITH HIM 2.
THIS THEN IS THE 3RD LAW...THE SECRET THAT WILL PRODUCE RICHES & ACCLAIM BEYOND YOUR DREAMS. GO ANOTHER MILE!
THE ONLY CERTAIN MEANS OF SUCCESS IS TO RENDER MORE & BETTER SERVICE THAN IS EXPECTED OF YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR TASK MAY BE. THIS IS A HABIT FOLLOWED BY ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. THEREFORE I SAITH THE SUREST WAY TO MEDIOCRITY IS TO PERFORM ONLY THE WORK FOR WHICH YOU ARE PAID.
THINK NOT YE ARE BEING CHEATED IF YOU DELIVER MORE THAN THE SILVER YOU RECEIVE. FOR THERE IS A PENDULUM TO ALL LIFE & THE SWEAT YOU DELIVER, IF NOT REWARDED TODAY, WILL SWING BACK TOMORROW, 10-FOLD.
THE MEDIOCRE NEVER GOES ANOTHER MILE, FOR WHY SHOULD HE CHEAT HIMSELF, HE THINKS. BUT YOU ARE MEDIOCRE. TO GO ANOTHER MILE IS A PRIVILEGE YOU MUST APPROPRIATE BY YOUR OWN INITIATIVE.
YOU CAN NO MORE RENDER SERVICE WITHOUT RECEIVING JUST COMPENSATION THAN YOU CAN WITHHOLD THE RENDERING OF IT WITHOUT SUFFERING THE LOSS OF REWARD. CAUSE & EFFECT, MEANS & ENDS, SEED & FRUIT, THESE ANNOT BE SEPARATED. THE EFFECT ALREADY BLOOMS IN THE CAUSE, THE END PRE-EXISTS IN THE MEANS, & THE FRUIT IS ALL WAYS IN THE SEED.
GO ANOTHER MILE.
CONCERN YOURSELF NOT, SHOULD YOU SERVE AN UNGRATEFUL MASTER. SERVE HIM MORE.
AND INSTEAD OF HIM, LET IT BE ME WHO IS IN YOUR DEBT, FOR THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT EVERY MINUTE, EVERY NATION, EVERY STROKE OF EXTRA SERVICE WILL BE REPAID. AND WORRY NOT, SHOULD YOUR REWARD NOT COME SOON. FOR THE LONGER PAYMENT IS WITHHELD,THE BETTER FOR YOU...
AND COMPOUND INTEREST ON COMPOUND INTEREST IS THIS LAW'S GREATEST BENEFIT.
YOU CANNOT COMMAND SUCCESS, YOU CAN ONLY DESERVE IT...& NOW YOU KNOW THE GREAT SECRET NECESSARY IN ORDER TO MERIT ITS RARE REWARD.
GO ANOTHER MILE!
WHERE IS THIS FIELD WHENCE YOU CRIED THERE WAS NO OPPORTUNITY? LOOK! LOOK AROUND THEE. SEE, WHERE ONLY YESTERDAY YOU WALLOWED ON THE REFUSE OF SELF-PITY, YOU NOW WALK TALL ON A CARPET OF GOLD. NOTHING HAS CHANGED...EXCEPT YOU, BUT YOU ARE EVERYTHING.
YOU ARE MY GREATEST MIRACLE.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD.
AND NOW THE LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS ARE 3.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS! PROCLAIM YOUR RARITY! GO ANOTHER MILE!
BE PATIENT WITH YOUR PROGRESS. TO COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS WITH GRATITUDE, TO PROCLAIM YOUR RARITY WITH PRIDE, TO GO AN EXTRA MILE & THEN ANOTHER, THESE ACTS ARE NOT ACCOMPLISHED IN THE BLINKING OF AN EYE. YET, THAT WHICH YOU ACQUIRE WITH MOST DIFFICULTY YOU RETAIN THE LONGEST; AS THOSE WHO HAVE EARNED A FORTUNE AR MORE CAREFUL OF IT THAN THOSE BY WHOM IT WAS INHERITED.
AND FEAR NOT AS YOU ENTER YOUR NEW LIFE. EVERY NOBLE AQUISITION IS ATTENDED WITH ITS RISKS. HE WHO FEARS TO ENCOUNTER THE ONE MUST NOT EXPECT TO OBTAIN THE OTHER. NOW YOU KNOW YOU ARE A MIRACLE. AND THERE IS NO FEAR IN A MIRACLE.
BE PROUD. YOU ARE NOT THE MOMENTARY WHIM OF A CARELESS CREATOR EXPERIMENTING IN THE LABORATORY OF LIFE. YOU ARE A FREE MANIFESTATION OF NO FORCE BUT MINE, OF NO LOVE BUT MINE, OF NO LOVE BUT MINE. YOU WERE MADE WITH A PURPOSE.
FEEL MY HAND. HEAR MY WORDS.
YOU NEED ME...& I NEED YOU.
WE HAVE A WORLD TO REBUILD...& IF IT REQUIRETH A MIRACLE WHAT IS THAT TO US? WE ARE BOTH MIRACLES AND NOW WE HAVE EACH OTHER.
NEVER HAVE I LOST FAITH IN YOU SINCE THAT DAY WHEN I FIRST SPUN YOU FROM A GIANT WAVE AND TOSSED YOU HELPLESSLY ON THE SANDS.
TO BE CONTINUED...
