Could it Be?

I must ask a seriously pointed question. Could it be? Everyone knows, the norm: "Let it be." To grow personally or financially we must become more, change what has been the norm, and allow ourselves to consider things that "stretch the mind. Even in attempting to disprove what I am about to ask you will stretch your mind. Maybe, just maybe in stretching your mind you too might be able to grow....


As I sit here tonight I see the stars as if they were in my own back, indeed their light is, even though some of them have burnt out many years prior. The moon, cast it's bright glow upon my face and reflects off everything in my yard, the trees, illuminating everything. Everyone knows that the moon is nothing more than rock and soil just as our own planet is of rock and soil. The stars in the sky we now recognize as gases that are actually aflame producing light from the consumption of the gases and solids that make them up. They know how to do nothing, nay they have no intelligence of their own, yet they continue to do as they do without failure or waver.

The trees grow where they are planted. They bare fruit, seeds, and produce the oxygen so necessary for the existence of life around them. They have no training to do this yet they are successful and productive in spite of the winter storms that break their limbs or the changing of the seasons which strip their leaves and force them into dormancy. They follow their path without fail or question for they know not failure or question. They provide for those less fortunate who need places to rest, shade from the heat, branches for homes to raise young. All this they do so naturally.

There is a story told, normally, as a spiritual journey, telling of man's fall, typically his fall from his God. Could it be, the true importance of the story, an importance we are afraid to admit is how the story relates man's willingness to accept and welcome failure and quitting. Maybe it shows man's refusal to accept responsibility or try changing the plight he has accepted, a plight containing man's greatest weakness -- Man's ability to accept and embrace mediocrity and failure. Could it be, Man has fully succeed at one thing, accepting failure and defeat while laying the blame at someone else feet?

It is said by scholars, sin is another word for falling short. A term normally used in military action of an archer who could not shoot far enough to use his arrows to protect himself or his army. Could it be, we too have welcomed our failings far beyond a spiritual sense and into our personal and physical lives for they give us excuse? As I read the stories of one called Jesus, called by many, the Son of God, but always calling Himself, "Son of Man". Could it be, Jesus had another great for us to learn and we have been missing was, "man is created for success and should never settle for anything less."? I do not intend to diminish anything Jesus said or did only increase our understanding of  His teachings. Just maybe, however, Jesus was more than the creator come to save His people from a religious damnation, maybe, just maybe He was also come that His people could as He said, "have life, and have it more abundantly."  After all if it could be these teachings are not contrary to Moses' teachings or history.

In all nature man and only man accepts failure as a normal way of life. Could it be, this is why he struggles without rest until death? Accepting failure in one's life is falling short of joy and happiness and it breeds like a cancer.

Could it be, when you accept failure and quit you affect more than just you and you truly fall short of your intended purpose in your life and as a member of mankind? Could it be, dreams are given to keep us pointed and moving in the direction of success giving man reason for life? Could it be, we have it wrong saying, "what the mind can conceive man can achieve."? Maybe, just maybe it should read "because we can achieve it we are given the ability to dream of it." Could it be?

Could it be that Man was indeed created to succeed in creating happiness, success, and gratitude. I not only believe it could be but is and everything else is ..... , well, failure!