Believe
Believe.
All the great men and women on this earth became what they were, because… they believed.
The vastness of freedom, the infinity of philosophy and the greatest discoveries of all time were always discovered and maintained by those who believed. Christianity lives, dies, and revives because of incredible faith. All forms of life are repeatedly studied, inventions never cease, science and space are constantly conquered… because there are men who believe that the answers can be found.
Almost everywhere we can see the flourishing of magnificent changes that none a hundred years ago could have ever imagined. Now we see visions of the future… because we believe.
How humbling it is to know that we could be all that we desire… if we truly believe.
If we truly believe…
Only today this thought was hit home to me because of Master Oogway and Poe. There are odds that we think are too powerful for our puny strength or dreams too impossible or perhaps too ridiculous for us to claim; but one simple yet invincible force can change the tide of life and allow us to capture our dream. To believe…
Since childhood we have known this. Yet in the years between we soon became too focused on the powerlessness of our existence and lost the ultimate magic that we have always possessed. We became fixated on the dark side of reality and allowed suffering to rule our lives. We allowed our souls to wither and our dreams to die.
So we gaze in awe at those few men and women who were able to live the life they dreamed. Those people never settled for something less than their true desire. They are human like us and in all probability had moments of weakness when they break down and lose the light of hope. But their faith was simply too great to ignore.
Thus unlike most of us, they became the makers of history and the leading forces of change on Earth and beyond.
Jesus and Mohammed. Siddharta Gautama, Confucius, Lao Tzu. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell.
Leonardo da Vinci, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Homer, William Shakespeare.
Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden.
Every one of them represents a significant part of what our world now is. Every one of them was a shaker. They were forces of change.
And every one of them… believed.
This is why we find that there are Christians willing to take the reins and jump into a cesspool of danger and death because they believe in Christ. This is why there are Muslims willing to die in every Jihad. This is why people rise to power, this is why scientists discover miraculous cures, this is why heroes are made.
It is the power and simplicity of faith.
So one must think closer to one’s own and ask, “Have I seen my dream recently?” Or perhaps, “Do I know what my dream is?” And then…
“Do I have the power to believe?”
