december one

Beyond living and dreaming
there is something more important:
waking up.
-Antonio Machado

. . . a king is coming.

i read some of the story again today. not the part that i normally read.

there was a priest named Zechariah. from all i could tell Zechariah was not doing anything extraordinary with his life. i picture him as a bit apathatic. his people were under oppression and his wife was not able to have children. maybe he was at that point when his dreams were gone and he was just punching the clock and getting through the days. i bet it was hard to face his wife at night - knowing the sadness that she carried. i bet i was hard to see the boys in the temple - knowing none of them were your own. but Zechariah was faithful.

and then one day he was shaken awake. nearly at the end of Zechariah's story and he woke up to a brand new world. a new life was on the way and Zechariah could sleep no more.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer