Not everything we engage in equals a successful foray.
Sometimes it’s a win, and sometimes it’s not.
But the desire to try walks me into unfamiliar territory
Where the win comes in the “try” and not necessarily a victory.
Long before I learned an easier way to do something,
I had to experience a standard transmission.
Training wheels on a bicycle,
Even a sippy cup to hold.
Doing only what we were once capable of doing
Limits us to never accepting something new
And it’s the growing process of life that tells me
There’s a better widget just around any corner.
I remember the first portable reel-to-reel recorder
Someone brought to school with a microphone
We captured our voices and played them back
Never imagining 63 years later where technology has taken us.
I remember piloting a glider plane from 3,000 feet up to the ground
Very few instruments. No motor. And a string taped to the windscreen.
That string told you more about what the glider was experiencing
What the instruments inside the cockpit tried to mimic.
Sit in any modern cockpit these days,
A degree in electronics and a computer whiz you must be.
But the old stick and rudder days must still be learned
Wait… If you’re willing, here’s a book you would enjoy.
It came to me this morning…
The reason we don’t grow…
We’ve grown comfortably lazy…
Let’s keep things the way they always were.
Today, we want to be observers of what’s there
Not innovators willing to push ahead.
Let the next generation handle the new?
I’m happy with my tin can and string. You?
“Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV)
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