Henry David Thoreau once stated, “I regret that I was never as wise as the day I was born.”
Once, not so long ago there was a little boy who grew up simply wanting to collect glass bottles to take to the grocery store to turn them in for pocket change to buy ice cream for his friends and to give the spare change to the homeless man on the corner who always offered wisdom. There was so much love, happiness and smiles.
He didn’t know he wasn’t in Heaven.
He would then go home and throw paper airplanes with his sister until their arms got tired. Then, he would sit by the pool and save bugs. There was so many smiles and so much love back then. When his mom came out, she would say “what are you doing?” He would say “I’m saving bugs so they can get home in time to have dinner with their families.” Occasionally, he would find a dead one and try and blow on it to make it come back to life. When this didn’t happen, he felt so sad, but he didn’t know why. He had empathy. There was so much love, happiness and smiles.
He didn’t know he wasn’t in Heaven.
Occasionally a new person would move into the neighborhood and the little boy would take them fresh cookies and smiles to make them feel welcome. He made so many new friends. There was so much love. Occasionally they would find stray animals and instinctively care for them. He was so caring. Nobody taught him that. He didn’t know there were words called stress, anxiety, overwhelmed or competition. There was so much love, happiness and smiles.
He didn’t know he wasn’t in Heaven.
One day his mother announced it was time to begin school.
The little boy learned the “BEST” kids played something called sports; that there was something called competition, and that there were so many kids that were better than him. He learned he was less. He got picked last for teams and was laughed at every day. He learned something new called anger. He then used this anger to kill bugs so he could be better than something.
He learned he wasn’t in Heaven.
The little boy then learned that the people who had the best cars, clothes and homes were the happiest. He wanted his happiness back so he became part of the machine. But none of those things made him happy. He then went around thinking he was broken because those things made everyone else happy, or sure at least, it seemed so.
He knew then he wasn’t in Heaven .
He was in the rat race that produced horrible results; Over 50 % divorce, millions of deaths from addictions, and thousands of murders, all committed by people who weren’t in Heaven.
One day when he was all grown up and so very miserable, his wife told him he was bringing a new life into the world. His daughter Kaylee was born. At his rock bottom on his 36th birthday, his daughter made him a birthday card telling him he was the best dad in the world and how much she loved him.
He knew fulfilling this mission of becoming the greatest dad in the world had to become the center of his life, right after Jesus and his wife. He is now fulfilling this mission.
How?
By showing people they are still in Heaven.
How?
By being forgiving, loving, caring, empathetic and compassionate.
Now, there is visibly more love, happiness and smiles. Caring about following the noise of the world simply fell away.
The groundswell of “The Contagious Renewed Mind” (CRM) momentum is producing infinitely more love, happiness and smiles in the neighborhood.
So, why are you here?
To show more people they are still in Heaven via CRM; especially to the ones who are the hardest to love.
Written 04/01/22 and submitted by Jonathan Dunn, Dream Leader Institute
P.S. And by the way, Thoreau was not a credential theologian. Neither is DLI.