The TIMELY TRUTH for this week is… VISION

The Washington Post related the story of Norman D. Vaughan’s return trip to Antarctica. His fascination with the frozen continent dates back to 1927. He was a 22-year-old Harvard student when he spotted a newspaper story about Adm. Richard Byrd’s planned expedition to the South Pole. Vaughan quit school and joined Byrd’s team. He had no invitation and had never met Byrd. All he had was a passion... and a dream.Not long before his 89th birthday, Vaughan returned to the icebound continent. He became the first person in history to scale the 10,302-foot mountain Byrd had discovered and named for him 65 years earlier. “You don’t hear much about people with a dream today,” he said. “It’s almost as if they’re afraid to discover what they’re individually capable of. But all of us have more inside of us than we believe possible. To bring it out, we have to dream big and dare to fall.”I believe Vaughan is right. We don’t dream big anymore. Too often we lack the courage to achieve.

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