VAST Possibilities

The questions we must ask ourselves in evaluating our possibilities contain some of their own answers: How big is my God? How compelling is my dream? How burning is my desire? How deep is my commitment?

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The question reveals the answer: Change your thinking, definitions, or upper limits. The dream cannot be too big, but our thinking can be too small. What is too big? Too many great dreams have been built from the vision of people who were unlikely visionaries to entertain the possibility of impossibility. Perhaps we need a dose of practicality from time to time, but that should lead us to strategy and division of labor - not to giving up the dream as "too big." Keep dreaming.

I avoided an accident the other day and commented to my passenger that we had just created a ripple in time - a new universe, parallel to our own, without us in it. The theory is that every either or choice creates such a new dimension of reality based upon the millions of choices made every second. So many would be indistinguishable from our own, but this new one, had I not swerved to the right, would have been significantly different as far as we and our families would be concerned. It is probably scientific hogwash, but it is great science fiction and a thought that propels other thoughts. What universe of possibilities are you living in? It is all about your choices. this or that?

If we traveled between dimensions in parallel universes as portrayed in science fiction, we could spend our entire lives in one minute repeated over and over and never exhaust all the possible contingencies of choices and twists and turns in the roads multiplied by an infinite number of factors influencing outcomes. That is the conundrum of choice and the vastness of the possibilities that we can create under God. It is also the very sobering anchor of our lives. We can only choose one path at a time and we cannot travel between outcomes. We must choose and live with our choices. The only ones we can change are in the future. As Erwin McManus says, we are all time travelers, but we can only travel forward in time.

Moon colony far grander goal than endless shuttle trips By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON - You might not have noticed, but we broke another space record last month when astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria logged 67 hours of spacewalking. If you consider that the equivalent of the Guinness record for pogo-stick bouncing (23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes) -- amazing but pointless -- I agree with you. There's nothing quite as beautiful as the space station and the shuttle that services it, and nothing quite as useless. READ MORE.