Presby-Musings

If you had unlimited resources, time, etc..... what would you do?  What would be different?  What would change, if anything?  And, more importantly, what would you pursue?   Most of us have dreams of the kinds of people we would like to become.  We have dreams about the kind of legacy we would like to leave behind--what we would love to accomplish in life.   And far too many of us decide that the immediate cost of pursuing our best self, our dreams, our legacy is too high to pay right now.  As a result, we become easily daunted by all of the steps that must be taken to achieve our goals.    Author Teilhard de Chardin notes that our problems generally lie in our inability to "trust in the slow work of God."  He goes on to say:  "We are quite naturally impatient to reach the end without delay.  We should like to skip the intermediate stages.  We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, som...

I had this dream a few weeks ago, and I thought about writing it down. And then that evil thing that author Stephen Pressfield calls the " Resistance " thwarted me, and I put it off. But no longer.  This dream deserves to preserved in writing.  You'll see why in a moment. I should also add that it probably deserves to be analyzed by someone who does that sort of thing. At any rate, here is the dream in all of it's surreality.   I am in a cab in a city, which I think is Chicago ---at least that's what it feels like.  It's dark and the lights of the city are flashing by as we speed through the streets.  It looks like it has been raining, because the streets are sort of glistening like they do after it rains and the clouds move away.   I look over at the seat next to me in the cab and I realize that I am sitting next to the Dalai Lama .  This seems odd to me even in the dream, but I can't think of anything to say.  The Dalai Lama smile...