The arch ...

I think some of us have too short of an arch of vision.

We here in America have a tendency to think in VERY short terms.  Success is measured by quarters.  Three months.  How can we be sure we're headed the right way if we're only looking 90 days down the road?  It's like trying to drive by aiming at the next highway hash-mark.

Why don't we start thinking in longer terms?  I was looking at pictures of my nephews recently and realized: this is why I preach.

I don't preach to turn you around immediately, though those short term benefits are good.  What I'm really looking to do is to give you a tool or an idea that you can incorporate into your life.

If you can take an idea, though foreign to you and difficult to maintain, your acting that principle out in your life creates a  positive native environment for your children. Those foreign ideas that you struggle to implement become a natural foundation to the lens through which your child will see the world.

Why can't we learn to teach and preach like this?  Is it too much to ask that we stop walking while looking at our shoes and begin to look to the horizon?  Let's look to future to learn how to live in the present.