Opportunities

West Face Thompson Library

Isn't it amazing the opportunities that drift into our paths when we wade into the river and take chances?  As we ford the rushing stream, dodging various drifting artifacts as we cross, the chances for discovery and revelation come at us too thick to avoid.  And none of those chances would have come our way had we stayed on the safe, dry, comfortable bank of the stream. 

Just so, since returning to the campus, I've had numerous opportunities to see my life turn in directions I never imagined.  Lately, I've been offered a chance to write a column for the campus newspaper--The Lantern.  Which means I'll be spending a lot of time in the library doing research, compiling information, educating myself.  And that is the ideal way to obtain an education, after all--acquire it ourselves, by taking advantage of opportunities that fall in our laps.   When people tell me they wish they had better luck, I have to wonder if what they really mean is better vision, or perhaps less fear of the 'luck' in front of them.  It is, as always, a choice: we either stay on the bank and stay dry, or we wade into life, get soaked a time or two--or three--and, in the process, find out what's on the other shore.