If you are reading this, you are blessed.
If you have a computer to read this on, you are blessed.
If you have a roof over your head to keep your computer dry you are blessed.
If you have electricity, a phone line, or a cable hookup, you are blessed.
If you can read you are blessed.
If you can see you are blessed.
We are all blessed
If you have clean water to drink, and some food (heh) and indoor plumbing you are blessed.
Through fate or circumstance or luck or karma or accident you have been blessed, even the poorest of the kossaks....heehee, like me!
I have been blessed.
I have the two greatest gifts in the world, the two most valuable things.
Freedom.
And Information.
Everthing else....ANYTHING else....is pure bonus. Grace.
So if you are reading this you are blessed...and in another way as well.
We are poised on the brink of a future that we can barely imagine.
In the next ten years or so, our planet will change dramatically, one way or the other. In twenty years it will be a very different world that we live in.
We are among the top 3 or 4% of people in the world in terms of income and opportunity, knowledge and influence.
We have the blessing, the privilege and the responsibility to change the world.
No we don't get to control it all....but we get to be a big influence...we can make a difference.
So lets take a moment tonight to count our blessings, if we can count that high.
And let's take a moment to think about where we want to go.
Let's just take a moment to think about what could be.
Just think what this planet could be if we lived here intelligently, made decisions rationally, based on facts... and for The Greatest Good Of All
Instead of in a world dominated by fear.
If you....if we, could exist on this planet in any fashion you wanted to ....in world that had been created by rational beings....that allowed you to live in an intelligent harmony with nature...what would that world be like, what would it look like? Hahaha...think hard to get past all the crap of the last six years, and use your imagination!
Ok, maybe you can't have that , but....
We do have the power to transform the world, at least a little. Maybe a lot.
So tonight, close your eyes and think about it, just for a minute or two, If you could create a world, based on this planet...what would that look like? What would you change? And how would those changes make the world look? Go ahead and dream for a moment, tonight. If you had the power to change the world, how would you change it?
Because you do.
We do.
We are blessed.