THE SOUND OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

Sunday, September 03, 2006

I like these lines from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

The temptation is to do just the opposite. We live under constant pressure to follow the crowd. Certainly we shouldn’t try to be odd or make ourselves into misfits in society. We don’t need to rebel against everything around us.

But what I am saying is, “Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold!”

Fox News featured a program today about Rick Warren and how he is on a mission to change the world. I LOVE IT! Change the world???? Why not?

Horace Mann gave a commencement address at Antioch College in which he told the students: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind.”

To Rick Warren I say: “Go for it brother. Maybe you will give the rest of us the courage to listen to the drummer in our own hearts.”