One night Toscanini, the famous Italian conductor, led the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a very difficult piece to conduct. So majestic was the music that the audience stood for ten minutes of applause. Toscanini took his bows again and again. He turned to the orchestra; they bowed. The audience continued to clap and cheer. Finally Toscanini turned his back on the audience and speaking only to the orchestra said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen. I am nothing, you are nothing, Beethoven is everything!’

C.S. Lewis wrote, ‘To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin; though, we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.’

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What an amazing few days I have had away interstate.

Two highlights were seeing a performance of ‘Les Mis’, in which one of my family was starring, and getting the opportunity to meet many from the cast and crew personally, and then having lunch with a couple in another city – one of which is starring in a current production of Jersey Boys (one of her co-stars has just been picked to be the next Mary Poppins here in Australia), and the other an actor currently in the midst of writing an original script for his own film with a projected budget of $30 million.

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‘Genius is actually the eventual public recognition of dozens (or hundreds) of failed attempts at solving a problem. Sometimes we fail in public, often we fail in private, but people who are doing creative work are constantly failing.’ Seth Godin

So you’ve failed to reach a goal?

So what?

Push further.

Reach deeper.

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Peter – I have read “The Cross & the Switchblade” many many moons ago ( I am ?? – don’t tell ) and I did not realize it at that stage, but it left an imprint on my mind for years – you have all my support and I pray that our G-D will bless you with and in all you need and that this WILL be the biggest hit Broadway has ever seen!

I pray that there will be souls saved and healed when this musical hits the major theater capitals of the world in such way you & I can’t imagine and to G-D be the glory, always!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be able to contribute towards your “blessing” if only by sharing with everyone I know. Also a huge thanks from my heart for the gift – going to LOOOOVE it and for your trust in me – may our Good LORD bless you abundantly! Success & prosperity in our G-d is my wish for you in all you do!

Sincere Jesus love

S.S.

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‘So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they become improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.’ Christopher Reeve

There are three stages in the development of a dream – as outlined by Christopher Reeve.  As a dreamer, allow these three words to empower you. Let them fill you with excitement as you continue to take the step by step process towards the fulfillment of your dream. For to live with dreams, chasing dreams, expecting dreams – is to truly live.

1. Impossible – This is stage one when you have defined your dream. If it’s not impossible then I don’t believe you have dreamed BIG enough. So stretch a little more until your dream is – in your own capacity – truly impossible.

That’s a dream worth living for, or even dying for.

2. Improbable – It’s amazing who is targeted by a dream. For the dream often finds you long before you have ever found it. As you look around, you may stop for a moment and say, ‘That guy is so much more talented than me’, or ‘that girl has more money than I have to pull off such a huge dream’. ‘Look they have the connections, the experience. It’s so improbable that I could ever pull off such a dream.’

Improbable? Perfect for dream fulfillment.

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