I have, in the past, had to pass up certain opportunities just because I wasn't in the right place to take them. The biggest was probably the opportunity to move to New York.
Yeah, that's right - I almost moved to New York.
It was a rather odd set of circumstances. There was a youth ministry position at a church in New York, and, at the same time, there was a film being made in New York. I had applied to both, at a time when I was applying for just about everything in the world, just after college.
Imagine my shock when both were interested in me.
The youth ministry job was part time, and the position with the film crew was, basically, a jack-of-all-trades job on a Christian film. Both positions seemed to be willing to work around each other.
Sounded great, huh?
The thing was, just out of college, I was in no shape financially to make a move like that. Forget about the cost of the actual move, but the cost of living in New York, along with my lovely student loans, my credit card... it simply wasn't feasible.
It was then that I realized that just desperately sending out my resume to get *anywhere* wasn't going to work. Honestly, I wasn't interested in working on a film set, nor did I really feel a calling to youth ministry.
I realized that I needed to figure out where I wanted to be, and then I needed to put myself into a position to where I could jump at an opportunity when it presented itself.
The first part wasn't too bad, because God eventually led me to what He wanted me to be. The second part? That was a chore.
It took time, and effort, and there are still things I'm doing to put myself in the proper position. I want to be ready for when it is time to move.
I was recently watching an episode of *Dirty Jobs* on the Discovery Channel, and they were at the Kennedy Space Center. The focus of the show was on the Crawler.
In case you didn't know, the Space Shuttles don't just taxi up to the launch pad on their own prior to launch. Nope, they have to be carried.
No small feat when a Shuttle, minus its payload, weighs 4.5 million pounds.
Enter the Crawler.
The Crawler is a massive tracked vehicle that carries a Shuttle from its bay to the launch pad, about a five mile trip. At the blazing speed of approximately one mile an hour.
That's right - one mile an hour. Your car idles faster than that. Not only that, but the average walking speed of a human is three miles an hour, so you could concievably start walking from the bay to the launch pad at the same time as the Crawler, get to the pad, remember you forgot your lunch, walk back, grab the lunch, walk back to the pad, and be there just as the Crawler arrives.
That is how fast the Crawler moves. While its loaded, anyway. Unloaded, it can race away at two miles an hour.
Kinda weird to think that you have to go a mile an hour in order to get a vehicle that will eventually travel over 17,000 miles an hour into position.
Without the crawler you couldn't have that amazing liftoff. It is necessary.
Before we can really take off, we also have to get into proper position, and, yeah, it sometimes feels like we are moving at one mile an hour. Its a lot of heavy lifting, and it takes time. When you think about it, though, the payoff is definitely worth it.
Do what you can to prepare for launch, so that when the time is ready, you are set to go.
Type at you later.
(Note - Right here you usually see a sketch. I did complete it, but wasn't able to get it scanned into the computer. So, in its place, I've included an old sketch I did of Harley Quinn that someone requested for a birthday, right after this little explanation. To tell the truth, the daily sketch may fall victim to my lack of time... I like the daily sketch, but it may become less frequent as I try to focus on other artistic endeavors, such as a certain webcomic. I'm still debating that. It is a "wait and see" right now.)
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