Living Out Your “Dash”?

Our Time Measured Against Eternity

Everyone’s tombstone will have two dates separated by a dash. That little dash is your time on this planet measured against eternity. How do you plan to live out that dash?Anonymous

Lorelle on WordPress wrote an article about this anonymous quotation. Needless to say, these three sentences are quite profound and require a great deal of thought. Introspective thought. The kind of thought that is often easier to leave for another day.

Our Time Measured Against Eternity

“Our time measured against eternity”. Wow. Whenever we get all wound up in ourselves, our lives, our failures or our successes, it might be time to step back and think about that “little dash” and how it relates to “eternity”.

The significance of that “dash” is remarkable, isn’t it? We all need to keep our lives in perspective. Sometimes that is hard to do, as the day-to-day exigencies tend to get in the way of what is really important.

Thanks for the eye-opening article, Lorelle.

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New Header Graphic for 1955 Design

Your Thoughts?

question-mark.jpgI have just uploaded a new header graphic to 1955 Design. Obviously, it is a much different look than the old header graphic.

I thought the header needed to be more colorful, more upbeat and more contemporary. What do you think?

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Our Most Important Post of 2007

You Can Make A Difference!

kiva-xmas.jpgA couple of days ago I wrote an article titled Our Most Popular Posts of 2007. After thinking back about the articles written in 2007, it struck me that I needed to talk a bit about another post that I had overlooked. The post is certainly not very popular, because nobody even commented on it. In my opinion, however, it is the most important post I wrote last year.

In September I became aware of an organization named Kiva and wrote an article about what I learned. The short story is that Kiva facilitates microfinance loans from people like you and me, and then disperses those loans to small business owners in third world countries. In turn, these business owners use these funds to grow and expand their businesses so that they can increase the standard of living for their families. Oh, I almost forgot. The other thing these business owners do, from thousands of miles away (in many cases) is pay back their loans.

Guess what? The concept works. Each of the loans my wife and I have made are currently being paid back - on time and on schedule. It truly is a miracle.

As each of us reflects back on 2007 and looks ahead to 2008, please consider the plight of those less fortunate then ourselves. I think Kiva is a great organization and one that you should consider donating to in New Year.

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