My Birthday Wish for You..

Dear Friends and Family, I'm going to break with tradition and tell you my Birthday Wish.

43 years, that's how long I have been alive....43 years when I think about that number it seems surreal.
A part of me still feels like a child and a part of me feels like a Man and I have recently come to grips with the inescapable truth, the truth that has been hiding in the back of our minds, the inescapable truth that sooner or later we all have to confront.

My Life is moving to the otherside of the hourglass, more specifically I have realized how precious Life is and how lucky I am to have had 43 years of it.

Yesterday a race car driver died at 33, leaving behind a wife and two children, within the last few months I have had friends and family confront sickness and death. Conversely I have seen new Life born, miracles of recovery, hope and love in places there should be none.

This life is truly a miracle and a blessing and is not to be taken for granted not even for a second.

On this my 43rd Birthday My Wish for you is that you will never forget that you are guaranteed nothing in this life other than the moment you have right now.

That you are an original, and were created for more than you are. The people that you see everyday, one's you know, one's you don't, one's you like, one's you dislike. These people are not strangers, they are your Brothers and your Sisters and for every moment you withdraw from them, chastise them, speak ill of them... you are hurting your family.

There is but one race and that is the Human Race, There is but one Father and that is the Heavenly Father, There is no greater love than showing your Fathers Love to your family and by family I mean all of you.

This is my Wish for You..........

A Man's Destiny Part IV

Men, we learned that our first lesson is Understanding, who we are and what we created to do and be.

Lesson number II is acceptance of these things, and acknowledgement that we have a specific role to play and much to learn in how to play it..in essence we have to accept that we started without knowledge and understanding and as we grow we must seek out and accept guidance, wisdom and teaching from our earthly brothers and fathers and our pray for guidance from our Heavenly Father.

Without acceptance you become as a ship on the sea without a rudder, driven by the forces of nature and man, which will inevitably cast you upon the rocky shoals and tear your vessel apart. You must accept that you know nothing and seek out knowledge and wisdom, which in turn acts as food for the spirit and sustenance for the soul.

Everything that has happened now, has also happened before, everything you will think and experience has been thought and experienced a multitude of times by other men before you were even born.

Yes you are unique, there has never been another you before, as for your life's joy's and sorrows, your thoughts and struggles these are not exclusive to you they are in all men..... those before, those during and those to follow you.

Lesson II:  Acceptance
Accept who you are, what your responsiblities are, and what your role is on this Earth.