THOUGHTS
You are thinking and feeling a thousand different thoughts about what has been happening to our world-today. Constant crudeness toward others is becoming our norm. What kind of foundations are being laid for our youth and future generations? What kind of thoughts do we have for each other?
It is told in tales of old that the knights of King Arthur’s court went out to search for the Holy Grail, the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper on the night before his Crucifixion. Far beyond the evils of the world it lay, sin could not touch it, could not come near it. Knight after Knight came home without finding the Holy Grail; but at last one knight in particular, whom no temptation turned aside, succeeded in the quest. His name was Galahad. He was true, brave, and pure. Galahad had gone out into the world with a single purpose; he had let nothing evil come into his life.
We all are looking out into the world, not as Galahad, but we all have something to find, as he did. He sought the highest end, as we should. He gave his utmost for the best, as we should. He kept the great end in view, as we should. He followed his path with devotions of a friend for a friend, as we should.
A tale perhaps, but without imagination there is no hope for the future of mankind. I believe it is safe to say that many great thoughts have come from the imagination of Lincoln, Gandhi, and Shakespeare. Those thought were often a reflection of kindness, as well as a better world. We come into the world that is open to receive us; for a few short years we live in the world as we find it; but soon, perhaps almost sooner than we know, we are making our own world, carving our own way, shaping our own thoughts, controlling our own destinies.
What shall we take, and what shall we reject? The things we put into our pockets may be nothing, though they may be made of gold; but the things we put into our minds are all the world to us, though they fall from the skies or rise from the valleys or pour out upon us from the hills, and cost us nothing. We are what we think. We are as old as we feel, as rich or as poor as our imaginations let us be. We are as strong as our faith or as weak as our fears. It is these thoughts that make up life for us; it is your mind and its thoughts that make your world, and your mind is what you make it.
