New Beginnings, Great Things
Every year we look at spring as a new beginning. The cold weather subsides. The flowers and trees bloom. The birds reappear in places where temperatures ran them away. We as people start to feel better and become more active.
Of course, new beginnings can happen at anytime in our lives. In fact, they happen every day. Every day we are given a clean slate. We are given a new beginning to our lives whether young or old. A clean canvas to paint whatever we want.
If we think about it, many great things have been done in America by people who simply began a new task. Air travel exists today, because Orville and Wilbur Wright believed that man could create a machine to fly. This belief led them to close their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio and move to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It was at Kitty Hawk that the brothers first took flight.
In 1891 Luther Halsey Gulick, Jr. hired Doctor James Naismith as a physical education instructor at the International Young Men’s Christian Training School in Springfield Massachusetts. Looking for a new sport for his boys to play in the winter, Gulick asked Naismith and other instructors to come up with one. Given a new beginning at a new job Naismith invented the game of basketball.
Every American music genre has been created because someone decided to try something new with instruments and voices. Because of this today we have jazz, the blues, country, rock and roll and rap. Some would say for better or worse. But to each their own.
In 1912 women in America could not vote. For the most part, they were thought to be second-class citizens. This did not stop Juliette Gordon Lowe from forming the Girl Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia. The first Girl Scouts consisted of only 18 girls. Today its membership is close to 2,000,000 and has countless alumni.
No one knew that a peanut could have so many usages. A scientist by the name of George Washington Carver decided to experiment with it. He came up with over 300 new and different ways to use them from food to industry to medicine.
All of us receive the benefits of someone making a fresh start with good intentions. When we have the opportunity for a fresh start and do something with good intentions others can receive the benefit of it as well.
A renewal of energy and strength can happen to us at any time. We do not have to wait until spring. We have a new beginning every day. Just as each person mentioned in this blog.
No matter what our age or circumstances spring can occur at any time in our lives.