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Americans waited with anxiety yesterday as word got out that a 6-year-old boy was feared adrift in a wayward homemade helium balloon.
Helicopter cameras tracked the balloon as it floated thousands of feet above rural Colorado. When it softly crashed, it was without a passenger, news that launched a four-hour chase throughout the northern Colorado landscape.
Thankfully, the boy was found safe in his parent's Fort Collins home. Tragedy averted, but two "peaceful" lessons arose from the story.
First, watch your intention. If the parents of this curious boy truly wanted him to stay on the ground, why did they name their child "Falcon"? As Deepak Chopra says, "our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situations, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome." Six years ago did Falcon's parents create, perhaps unknowingly, the conditions that led to yesterday's events?
Second, we can all learn a little about the possibilities of our lives. As St. Teresa of Avila says: "how can one be content to crawl along slowly when it is able to fly?”
And finally, today's Daily Dose, from Oscar Wilde:
...and over our heads will float the bluebird, singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happened, of things that are not ?and that should be.
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