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Saturday, January 19, 2013

My Greatest Accomplishment



What is your greatest accomplishment so far? How long did it take you to do it? What was so hard about it? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 1071).


"Greatest" in the question means to me the "most significant". A great achievement has been my continuing to be employed responsibly with one employer for nearly 30 years. But to my mind this does not get to the heart of the matter of measuring accomplishment. I think a better measure of accomplishment is that I have maintained close friendships over the years--some of them measurable and describable only in terms of son-ship, sisterhood and brotherhood. And off the charts was my marriage to Kathy. When the vacuum of not having a mate was resolved in a manner that was profoundly positive and meaningful, words cannot express the sense achievement and the attainment of peace. 

Yet the greatest and most significant accomplishment is something I had little to do with. Clearly I was more recipient than agent. That involves the clarity with which I have been given to appreciate the force, power, and practical applicability of creative love. A lot of people have and do appreciate this. It is not unique in any way other than I now experience it personally with absolute assurance and certitude.








Chicago Feeling Stronger Everyday Lyrics
Songwriters: Peter Cetera, James Pankow

I do believe in you and I know you believe in me, oh yeah, oh yeah.
And now we realize love's not all that it's supposed to be, oh yeah, oh yeah.
And knowing that you would have wanted it this way,
I do believe I'm feelin' stronger every day.

I know we really tried, together we had a love inside, oh yeah, oh yeah.
So now the time has come for both of us to live on the run. oh yeah, oh yeah.
And knowing that you would have wanted it this way,
I do believe I'm feelin' stronger every day.

After what you've meant to me, ooh baby now, I can make it easily.
I know that we both agree the best thing to happen to you
is the best thing that happened to me.

Feelin' stronger every day, feelin' stronger every day.
Feelin' stronger every day (you know I'm alright now),
feelin' stronger every day (you know I'm alright now)…



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