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I hope you've enjoyed our discussion today on the topic of vision and dreaming for the
future. It reminded me of a saying that I had heard as a child growing up in rural Western
Kentucky. It went something like this. If you don't know where you're going, any road
will take you there, but you won't know when you get there because you never really intended
to be there in the first place. Do you know people that live their lives that way? I do.
They're easy to spot. They say things – well, we'll see. Time will tell. We'll just cross
that bridge when we get there. Well, the reality of it is we will have to
see. Time will tell and we have to cross all the bridges when we get to them in our lives,
but those responses or that thought process is reactive in nature. It's not exactly where
the essence of dreaming and visioning is found. I've come to prefer a more proactive thought,
thoughts such as these. The poet, Carl Sandburg, wrote, “Nothing
happens unless first a dream.” Arthur C. Clarke concluded, “The only way to discover
the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Finally, no less
than an authority than the Bible, in Proverbs, Chapter 28, Verse 19, reminds us that “Where
there is no vision, the people perish.” I've concluded that when we dream, we expand
our minds and it's only in this mentally expanded state that we find new and creative ways to
influence and impact others. This is Philip Van Hooser. Thanks very much for watching.