"One of the most agonizing problems within our human experience is that few, if any, of us live to see our fondest hopes fulfilled. The hopes of our childhood and the promises of our mature years are unfinished symphonies." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
At first the thought is unnerving. Like somehow our living is futile. Like if we don't achieve our dreams then we are incomplete. This is not true. The cathedrals that took hundreds of years to build were built with thousands of hands and over many generations. In fact, there are stories of three generations of the same family working on one cathedral. I believe that dreams are built through the decades and the good we do lives far beyond our lifetime.
The tragedy is that we get lost in our hopes and miss the doing. The placing of 'hope stones' each day in our life. One by one they build a beautiful picture rising into the sky framed by the brilliant blue of creation. It may not be finished but like a symphony the music lives on.
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