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ARE WE BEING OVERCONFIDENT?
We expect problems, and we expect to ask for help. John F. Kennedy announced the plan to reach the moon by acknowledging that it would be hard, not easy. He explained that the goal was chosen BECAUSE it was hard. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." (Rice University Houston, Texas September 12, 1962)
http://www.historyplace.com/sounds/presidents/thp-jfk-space.ram
I chose to pursue this venture because it is IMPOSSIBLE for me. We have no government funding or expert aerospace designers. I am the student who flunked trigonometry three times. Without assets or natural abilities, we need a miracle. Should that be an extraordinary expectation? Many people feel that the universe is created by a higher power, a result of intelligent well ordered design. Would this designer be willing to help mere mortals?
Challenge your God to prove that he still does miracles. I expect to overcome my shortcomings. I re-took my math class and got a B, and I use math routinely on my job now. Expect the IMPOSSIBLE. Expect to ask humbly for the help of those who do not share your beliefs. We do not have all knowledge now, but we do have the opportunity to learn. We need to be a team, not selfish or boastful. We have a blessing in being able to start a journey, and work through to answers. We have a reality in having to do our part, beginning the work, and persisting to the end.
Enterprise is more than a starship; it is a fellowship.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen
Heb 11:1
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