Vision

I read this today while at the gym:

I'm thirty-nine. It's time to ask myself some serious questions. Perhaps they are the same questions asked by others who have apparently reached the age of midlife confusion (I prefer confusion over crisis.)

Perhaps it is the same question asked by Michael W. Smith in his song "Place in This World." He is crying out to know the reasons for his existence and asks: "Is there a vision, that I can call my own?"

Or from the halcyon days of the seventies, the questions posed by Diana Ross when she said, "Do you know where you're goin' to? Do you like the things that life is showin' you?"

Or perhaps it is the same searching which Arthur Miller wrote about in the Death of a Salesman, where Willy Loman's sons concluded after their father's suicide that "He had the wrong dreams."

Whatever the question is, it seems time to answer it.

(From Mentoring Leaders by Carson Pue)

Stay tuned - I will post more from this chapter another time. I'm trying to digest it in pieces.