FAILURE AND DINOSAUR’S EGGS

       We all have projects we are going to get around to. It may be parked in the garage, on a shelf in the workshop, possibly in a folder in this very computer or a box in the closet. Those creative projects we had so much energy to do when first envisioned but have been gathering dust longer than we care to admit. The dinosaur egg in the museum was a potential dinosaur that for what ever reason failed. We can wonder about the potential dinosaur it represented, but in truth it represents failure. No one completes every project envisioned; the question we need to answer in our heart of hearts is whether we follow through on anything to its logical conclusion. Dreaming doesn’t require getting our hands dirty, scrapping a knuckle or clean up and we never have to worry about what anyone thinks of our creative endeavor. After a while no one even asks about the project car under all the Christmas decorations, garage sale items and other debris too valuable to throw away, the forgotten box in the back of the closet, the workshop that has become a storage shed or the first pages of that book buried away in a word folder.

    So, what is our course? Think from the end; envision the project complete in your minds eye, and then thank God for your fertile imagination quietly asking in meditation for guidance and direction. Consider your “dinosaur egg” in this light and the answers will come. Now it is up to us to follow through with the next indicated action, for following through on direction received from a Power Greater Than Ourselves is a challenge in its self. Willingness is the key. Now if you will excuse me, I have some eggs to check.