From Top Back To Bottom...

"I want to rise today...and change this world..."

You just got yourself a new home.  Imagine yourself packing.  You look around the old home and wonder what you can take with you.  You size up your old sofa and you notice that it won't fit into the configuration of your new living room.  You see that your bed will do but the dressers won't.  The kitchen table you have is too damn small for your new kitchen.  Even some of the appliances now seem outdated.  You realize you have to leave all this stuff behind but come to the realization that even if you move into an empty home, it's still better than what you had before.  So yeah, it's time to furnish from there.  Time to find what will fit beautifully making this place your home with only traces present of what you left behind.

Now you can take the above paragraph literally or you can take it figuratively.  In either case, it'll work but for this piece, it is but a figurative analogy.  To what?  To new beginnings.  So many people miss out on what a real new beginning looks like.  It can be as grandiose as a new house or as small as a change in perspective.  Every new change that has taken on a life of it's own marks a new beginning and must be treated as such if one is to capitalize on it's greatest benefits.  How one deals with changes marks the difference between a planted seed that will either become a strong tree or a feeble shrub.  It is always up to you.  Take what you can with you but if it is something you can do without, if it is something that has been a hinderance to you or if it is something that just cannot live in your new environment...leave it behind.  Some things just can't grow with you.  Don't allow them to become an albatross that keeps you from growing.  Think about why you are stuck and you'll come to find that some of the familiar you found comfort in has really been nothing but a set of brakes holding you back from new zones needed for growth.  You want growth?  You need to find new comfort in the discomfort of the "new".

I am one to always set a new goal at heights that once reached...become my new bottom.  Crack open your ceilings, celebrate but don't linger.  Set up the new ladder.  Keep climbing until you reach nature's potential.  When you've reached nature's potential, look to heaven's potential.  That's where all that you built will find purpose enough to set up ladders for others.  What?  You thought this was all for you?  Think again...

~Moses