Nothing will ever change around you. Really you should not expect it to. Things will not change just because you are there or watching. Change requires energy, will, desire. Watching the world stay the same shows none of these.
If you want to see change you must cause it, waiting for change only works for canyons and glaciers.
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
beginings
Many years ago I went to Scottish Rite Hospital for Children with my wife and girls. It wasn't my first time there. We went inside the clinic checked in and got an update from other families we had already met and talked about how life was going. We got Popcorn from Volunteers that years later I would learn were George and Kay Skinner. (Even if we didn't have the quarter they always made sure the girls had popcorn)
As the girls examined the Airship to see if anything had changed I went outside for a Smoke. I stood outside the sliding doors and I spotted a small rough pillar of granite with a side walk and small garden around it. I walked over and upon the polished surface at the top of the pillar was a Square and Compasses. I stood there looking at it and reading and finished my smoke.
I went back inside and sat down next to my wife and said "this is a Masonic Hospital"
She said, "Well, yeah. You didn't know that?"
I knew my grandfather and his father and a few more back were Masons but I had no clue what Scottish Rite was until then.
One of the Hardest things we ever did was to leave Scottish Rite Hospital We did it because we changed our lives and wanted to make space for other children who needed the services there more than we did. It was the only Hospital I ever looked forward to going to. they didn't just take care of my daughter they cared for all of us.
That moment lead me to seek out admission to the Masonic Lodge, and I have never looked back with any thing but affection upon the Brothers who took care of my child and my family when I could not.
I asked to be a Mason because of this, in return I was given the tools to make myself a better man and to help others in need. myself a better man and to help others in need.
As the girls examined the Airship to see if anything had changed I went outside for a Smoke. I stood outside the sliding doors and I spotted a small rough pillar of granite with a side walk and small garden around it. I walked over and upon the polished surface at the top of the pillar was a Square and Compasses. I stood there looking at it and reading and finished my smoke.
I went back inside and sat down next to my wife and said "this is a Masonic Hospital"
She said, "Well, yeah. You didn't know that?"
I knew my grandfather and his father and a few more back were Masons but I had no clue what Scottish Rite was until then.
One of the Hardest things we ever did was to leave Scottish Rite Hospital We did it because we changed our lives and wanted to make space for other children who needed the services there more than we did. It was the only Hospital I ever looked forward to going to. they didn't just take care of my daughter they cared for all of us.
That moment lead me to seek out admission to the Masonic Lodge, and I have never looked back with any thing but affection upon the Brothers who took care of my child and my family when I could not.
I asked to be a Mason because of this, in return I was given the tools to make myself a better man and to help others in need. myself a better man and to help others in need.
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