"To Change The World One Umbrella at a Time"........................ a friend of mine or perhaps aquaintance of mine would be a better definition of our relationship, once said to me that it was her daughters ambition in life to do this .................. To change the world one umbrella at a time. at the time I thought that it was a rather weird thing so say, a weird thing to have as your life's ambition, but the more I thought about it, the more, the thought started to appeal to me, the thought of a world filled with colourful umbrellas, a world filled with umbrellas of every colour, every design, every size, every possible shape, the more I thought, the more ideas began to come to me, and this simple phrase grew and grew in my imagination until it started to sound like something, that you could begin a movement with, something that you could take up as a battle cry .....................
Change the world lets change the world who wants to change the world ..................................... sign up..... sign up ....who want to make a difference to your life .............................. all you have to do is change your umbrella.................................come on change your umbrella, hand your old one in and get a brand new colourful one .........................................................
Think about it ................ really think about it, when it is raining it is overcast and dark, wet and miserable,. and when we leave a building we put up our black, blue, or brown umbrella, which really only adds to the bleakness of the day, to the depression that is caused by another day of rain, another day of grey and dismal weather. The streets are alive with bobbing umbrellas as people hurry on to the shops or to their work place, or to their homes, they rush because the don't want to be out in this greyness they rush to encase themselves in the warmth , and the colours that they will find inside, they rush because inside is where they are safe from the storm, and yet here on the outside they are quite content to accept the dark colours, the somber colours of the rain.
Imagine a world full of baby pink and midnight blue, fire engine red and sunburst yellow, lilac and cherise, lime green, and aquamarine, think tangerine, and metalic blue, think of shocking red, and burnt orange, think of canary yellow, and grass green, think of striped and spotted, think of checked and tie dyed, think of two tone, think of quilted thing of scrapped., think of see through ............. think umbrella ..............................................
Is this not not a reflection of what we do with our lives we lock ourselves into the ordinary, into the dull, the dark, the lifeless, we want to blend, we want to sit in the corner, in the back row, behind the pillar, we don't want to be seen, we want to get lost in the crowd................. but as children of God we need to shine we need to be bright and bold we need to be noticed, we need people to turn and say , "WOW, WHAT WAS THAT", we need to bring our the colours of our happiness, our joy, we need to show people that even in the rain, even in the storm we have nothing to worry about we don't need to walk around in the dark because we are always in the light be bold, be bright ............... be a beacon because your life should be full of all the colours of the rainbow , because you are a child of God ..........................
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