The Glass half full

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Cried Chicken Little and as we all know the sky never fell and Chicken Little went down in history as an annoying piece of foul only to be redeemed many years later born again “Kentucky Fried”!

You know as we look back over the centuries we have had one “Grapes of wrath” experience after another and through it all man has survived…So some of us are a little short of the good old Franklin or Washington, being broke is only tempory as against poverty being a state of mind.

The latest buzz word of 2009 would have to be rescission, but I tend to look at it as a time of new growth and creativity in all areas of our lives. It’s a time to see the glass half full and to flex our metal and soar to new heights and face fears that have been dogging us for so long and put them to death where they belong.

Can you imagine if Winston Churchill in Britain’s darkest hour threw in the towel and sat in the corner resigned to his bowl of “Sour kraut” instead of crying never, never, never Quit? If Stonewall Jackson had never turned while in full retreat and faced the “Union Army” head on. If Rosa parks never sat in the front of the bus or drank from a white`s only fountain.

If Martin Luther king JNR had never marched on Washington igniting the fire of true civil rights in America  or for that matter the great reformer Martin Luther in Germany had not nailed his revelation of true freedom in God onto the door of the Catholic Church. If Christopher Columbus believed everything the critics said and never set sail on the winds of faith to the Americas. If Nelson Mandela never gave up his freedom for his country and in the end he became its leader. If Gandhi never humbled himself before his God and by peaceful protest drove out an empire without firing a shot.

And Finally!!!Robert the Bruce the last great King of Scotland lay hiding in a cave in the highlands of his beloved country. He had been defeated by the English Army for the sixth time and was morally and mentally drained of all hope and soon possibly life it’s self. As he lay on the floor of his discontent he noticed a small spider trying to swing across from one side of the cave to the other in the hope of building a web. The spider tried once, twice, three and so on each time failing but never giving up until on the Seventh attempt he made it. Robert took this as a sign from God and left that Cave a changed man and one with his maker. He raised up another Scottish Army and sent England packing.

So as a friend of mine once said as we stopped at a red light on the way to work “Look Michael! we are first in line!!! So how do you look at your glass?