MOUNTAIN MEN AND WOMEN

Bring me men to match my mountains;
Bring me men to match my plains,-
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Bring me men to match my prairies,
Men to match my inland seas,
Men whose thought shall pave a highway
UP to ampler destinies;
Pioneers to clear Thought's marshlands,
And to cleanse old Error's fen;
Bring me men to match my mountains-


Sam Walter Foss written for the Fourth of July 1894.

PERSPECTIVE

Perspective does not change what we see, but simply how we see it. What do you see? Some one said to us recently, speaking of a particular situation, “I don’t know if we will succeed or fail, all we can do is just keep plugging along”. Now that’s one perspective, not a motivated one, not a positive one, but some one’s perspective none the less. Now I look at the exact same situation and I see opportunities to prosper, progress and succeed. Jesus said, ” If you believe, all things are possible to him who believes”. Our perspective on our future is many times determined or at least predisposed by our past. Our perspective about what is around us is largely determined by what is inside of us. Namely how we see ourselves is how we see our future. Remember what the Israelite spies said of the giants who occupied the promised land. Numbers 13:33 “We were like grasshoppers in our own site”. Now here is where perspective is the key to our success. The verse I just mentioned finishes by saying, “and so we were in their sight”. How we see ourselves is how others will see us. How others see us determines who we attract into our lives and how they react to us. WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE MIRROR OF YOUR SOUL, WHAT DO YOU SEE?