HERE IS NOT THERE IV

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama 

CSH

The biggest challenge, in the difference between here and there is the man in the middle. Have you ever noticed, that nothing else is more difficult to change than yourself: nobody else is more difficult to change than you? Gandhi said, "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Howard Henricks once said that the clerk of Abbington Presbytery, outside of Philadelphia, approximately 100 years ago gave five kinds of attitudes about change. The statistical presentation is quite disturbing. He said:
1. Early innovators (2.6%), run with new ideas
2. Early Adapters (13.4%), influenced by (1) but not initiators
3. Slow Majority (34%), the herd-followers
4. Reluctant Majority (34%)
5. Antagonistic (16%), they will never change

Many people fall under this category. But for any man to make progress without, he must first initiate change from within. He has to be transformed by the renewal of his mind. Rumi declared that "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." Then Friedrich Nietzsche puts it this way, "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." Embrace change today friends. Good morning.