Not
everyone can build a ship and expect it to float.
Not
everyone can slam-dunk a basketball leading their
team
to a championship victory.
Not
everyone can formulate a vaccine and cure a disease.
Not
everyone can paint a masterpiece for display in a
renown
museum.
Not
everyone can pitch a 98mph fastball to strike out
the
side.
Not
everyone can eat thirty hot dogs in one sitting,
winning
a contest at the county fair.
Not
everyone can run a minus 4-minute mile,
is
faster than a speeding bullet or can leap a tall building
in
a single bound.
Not
everyone can win a Nobel Prize in physics or economics.
Not
everyone can win an Oscar for best actor or actress in
a
block-buster movie.
Not
everyone can compose a symphony or achieve a place
in
the Tennis, Golf or Football Halls of Fame.
Not
everyone can fly to the moon and return safely to Earth
in
their lifetime.
You
may have contributed time or money to a worthy cause,
may
have compassionately listened to a grieving mother who
has
lost a child,
may
have baked a pie or given a hug which made a grandchild
smile,
may
have helped a stranger with a handout who was down on
their
luck,
may
have visited the sick and lonely, wiped a tear, brought a
smile,
filled the troubled or lonely heart in need with a kind
and
considerate embrace.
You
have the unselfish champion and hero within you, the
giving
grace to beam a ray of hope in a simple seeming way.
You
are you everyday, having the radiant sunshine to break
through
the clouds of despair on an otherwise lost and dreary day.
-
30-
Chris
Hanch 5-20-2020
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