I am humbled to announce today is the last day of 2012 AND day #4 of Resolution Week!

 

resolved #4

 The Naked and the Clothed

We like to clothe ourselves in many things.  We have our careers, families, money, homes, cars, friends, culture, fitness, style, science, beauty, youth, and, of course, actual clothing.  These things can give us the illusion that we are in control of our lives and in truth, since our lives do consist, in part, of those things, we are indeed controlling our lives. But it’s also very easy to use those same things to hide an even larger truth about our lives, and that is that we are not in complete control.  Underneath all those things we can control are many more things we can’t.

The Known Maybe and the Unknown Certainty

My father, Skeets Coleman, is 94 now.  And we all know his death is coming because he is old. That is known. But in spite of his advanced age he is still in relatively good health and we actually don’t know when or how he will die.  And we also don’t know if one of his children or grandchildren will die before he does. It isn’t likely that will happen and we would not want it to be so but the truth is we do not know. What do we know for certain?  We will die. But even that immutable truth is an unknown to us until the moment (or shortly before the moment) arrives.  

What is in Front of Us?

Do you know what your life is going to be like? Do you have it planned out?  That is good, nothing wrong with planning. It is ok to feel good about your life and who you are.  Being humble isn’t about purposely dissing yourself to appear humble. It’s about understanding reality. It is about remembering that all the ‘master of the universe’ desires we may have and may act on will not completely reduce the unknowns.  It is good to be humble as we acknowledge that the universe, god, karma, science or whatever combination of things is at work, is beyond our control.  

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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman

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Trivia of the Day (answer tomorrow)

The richest man on the Titanic died.  Who was he and why was he on the boat?

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