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September 10, 2007
Have you ever seen your life as the sum total of choices that you make, or have you had the tendency to blame your "lack" on other people or circumstances? The work and study that I have had the privilege of undertaking in the last 20 years, has brought me to believe that my life truly is the sum total of all the choices I have made, and I would venture to say that your life is also the sum total of all the choices you have made. If you want to become masterful at anything, and that includes how you live your life, its important that you travel the road from apprentice to master. As you become more and more masterful at what you aspire to live and who aspire becoming in the process, you will discover the greatest gift that you have ever been given - the power to choose. The poem below brings this into perspective. So what is your worth, how are you choosing to participate in life? Read on and make your choice to become master or not.
Touch of The Master's Hand
Myrna Brooks Welch
T'was battered and scarred, and the auctioneer:
Thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But held it up with a smile:
"What am I bidden, good folk," he cried,
"Who'll start the bidding for me?"
"A dollar, a dollar"; then "Two!" "Only two?
Two dollars, and who'll make it three?
Three dollars, once; three dollars, twice;
Going for three - "But no,
From the room, far back, a grayhaired man
Came forward and picked up the bow;
Then, wiping the dust from the violin,
And tightening the loose strings,
He played a melody pure and sweet
As a caroling angel sings.
The music ceased, and the auctioneer,
With a voice that was quiet and low, Said:
"What am I bid for the old violin?"
And he held it up with the bow.
"A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two?
Two thousand! and who'll make it three?
Three thousand, once, three thousand, twice,
And going, and gone," said he.
The people cheered, but some of them cried.
"We do not quite understand,
What changed its worth," Swift came the reply:
"The touch of the master's hand."
And many a man with life out of tune,
And battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd,
Much like the old violin.
A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine;
A game - and he travels on.
He is "going" once, and "going" twice;
He's "going" and almost "gone."
But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd
Never can quite understand
The worth of a soul and the change that's wrought
By the touch of the Master's hand.
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