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At the Olympics, there is no award given for completing the training and earning the right to appear in the games.
There is no recognition for the person who displays the best marching during the opening ceremonies or who has the brightest costume for the closing cavalcade.
There are three medals—a gold, a silver and a bronze.
And even though there are changes continually going on in our world, when it comes to the human race and our emotional, spiritual, mental and physical well-being, the same three distinctions have been available since the very dawn of time.
The only worrisome thing comes when we begin to believe that these three “medals” can be altered, or the rules can be changed to apply different criteria.
Many imposters have come along, attempting to replace the gold, silver and bronze of human expression.
- Greed
- Patriotism
- Revivalism
- Politics
- Open-mindedness.
- Traditionalism.
- Self-centeredness.
- And sloth.
Although these have been touted by certain generations, each one has failed to bring about any betterment.
There are still just three medals.
They’re the same three I had to learn, my grandfather had to learn—and Adam failed to learn because he got tied up in his own interpretation and ended up “west of Eden.”
The gold: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Nothing in this world works until we learn how to love ourselves, and become emphatic that every human being is granted the same respect and honor.
The silver medal: Give and it shall be given unto you.
Thinking that anything can grow without seed or that we can prosper minus investing ourselves, our time and our fortunes may be the breeding ground for evil.
The bronze medal: Choose and be faithful.
There are innumerable things we can choose to do that are full of kindness, prosperity and wisdom which only require our faithfulness.
There is power in faithfulness.
So you can see:
At no point are we to lose our love for self.
Nor should we ever anticipate that goodness will fail to come back to us.
And our power of choice endures as long as we remain faithful.
The Olympics of human determination continue today.
You will need to do more than train. You will need to compete.
And if we actually start stretching for gold, silver and bronze, the world will be affected.
Then we can all raise a jubilant cheer.
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