YOU ARE THE KEY TO YOUR FUTURE

YOU  ARE  THE  KEY  TO  YOUR  FUTURE

            What type of key are you?  What is your definition of a key?  In the dictionary there are as many as twenty-five (25) definitions of the word “key.”  Here are some of the definitions:

1)      a metal instrument inserted into a lock to move its bolt;

2)      something that affords a means of access (key to happiness);

3)      something that affords a means of clarifying a problem;

4)      music – a tone or pitch as of voice;

5)      keynote – the main idea of a  speech, program, thought, action, etc.;

6)      to regulate or adjust (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.)

7)      to a particular state or activity;

8)      keystone – a voussoir at the summit of an arch – something on which associated things depend.

You may be the key that will move the unlockable door of someone’s mind and heart.  You may be the only key that will gain access to someone’s thoughts and behavior.  You may the key that will clear up a human challenge that was once considered unsolvable.  You may be the key that explains or gives useful information about persons, places, or things.  Your key may be the only key that will unlock a very difficult situation with people that you respect and love.  You may be the right key to keep harmony rather than see discord continue in community and neighborhood human relations.  You may be the one key person who will complete or adjust the picture in a group activity.  You may be keyed-upped to influence others through your great intensity of feeling or the inner drive to do something.

You are the future key leaders who with your unique personality and conduct will influence the thinking and the actions of others.  Since you are a unique person, only one of a kind, the sum total of all of your God-given talents needs to be used in your key locations for the well being of others entrusted to your care.  Your key presence in your sphere of influence will often affect more persons than you will ever realize.  The impact of a cement block thrown from a very high bridge into the water below will create an obvious big splash and will give off a sizeable ripple.  However, if you threw a pebble from that same bridge into the water, the splash will not be as spectacular; but you will still generate a ripple.  What you do does make a difference in your environments.  The key to your future is you.  YOU ARE THE KEY EVERYONE IS WAITING TO RESPOND WITH POSITIVE ACTIONS!

Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

An effective leader would do well to ponder the following verse entitled, Only One Life.  It only takes one smile to offer welcome and blessed be the person who will share it.  It only takes one moment to be helpful and blessed be the person who will spare it.  It only takes one word to lend real comfort and blessed be the person who will speak it.  It only takes one truth to light the darkness and blessed be the person who will seek it.  It only takes one joy to lift a spirit and blessed be the person who will give it.  It only takes one life to make a difference and blessed be the person who will live it.