Today's Quote

Connecting the dots

The weather around here has FINALLY been BEAUTIFUL. This is when tolerating our high heat and humidity during the summer months pays off with highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s. The sweet potato vines wake from their slow slumber of growth and begin to trickle out of the garden and into the grass, as if they were more like a overflowing lake and less like vegetation. Stretching their limbs, they seem to claim it as their right for surviving the summer months as well.

It's a lot easier to tolerate those summer months when you've already experienced the moderate-ness of the remaining seasons. It's that 20/20 hindsight, or something like that. I read this quote this morning from Steve Jobs “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” If hindsight vision and perspective were for sale, they would make someone awfully wealthy.

This is where faith comes in and why we have to trust that if we put the most important things first, everything else will fall into place and the dotswill eventually connect, creating an image, a life that makes sense with beauty in it's entirety.