ARE YOU DYNAMIC?

Coffee shop theorists. Barroom philosophers. Chat room world leaders. Many believe that change and growth can come through discourse alone. That sounding off and speaking out actually accomplishes anything. Today, just as yesterday and the day before ad infinitum, impassioned speeches will be made from the bedraggled fellow in Hyde Park speaker’s corner to the UN general assembly. None of them will be remembered next week, or even tomorrow in most cases. There has always been, and will always be dynamic speakers. Eloquent and moving in the moment, their words perhaps even bridging time, to touch future generations. However, did they result in or engender action? Consider: If Churchill had not demonstrated resolve along with his eloquence, would Britain have persevered against seemingly insurmountable odds? When FDR spoke on Dec. 8th 1941, he called for action. What would the world look like today if he had failed to act? John Kennedy did not suggest that maybe we should go to the moon; he said we would in the next ten years and put into motion the foundation to accomplish it.

These men were dynamic. Yes, they spoke well, but what made them dynamic was making their words real, turning eloquence into action. Though you and I will probably never be world leaders, at least in the political sense, being dynamic is part and parcel to Living on the Spiritual Basis. Faith without works is dead. Sweet words and promises mean nothing, actually becoming destructive, if the appropriate action does not follow. None of us walks the way we talk all the time, but it is a goal worth shooting for. Strive to be dynamic; one day at a time, a speech demonstrated with ones hands and feet always carries more weight than words alone.