![]() There, pursuing the aisle was Gary Excel. As I stepped into the aisle my heart stopped. ![]() I searched the boards that hung above the aisles until I saw the word “solar”. I parked my car and walked into the store. As I was driving I was totally second guessing myself… why am I doing this right now? Why don’t I just wait until some of the volunteers leave? But I just kept driving on auto pilot, subconsciously determined to get there. So I walked out of my office, got in my car, did not say anything to anyone and just drove over to Harbor Freight. I had once heard that they sold some solar supplies and I had the impression that if I just went there, I might be able to find someone there that could answer my questions. (Side note: our office is nuts… we have volunteers and interns coming out of our ears, in a good way, and I NEVER leave the office in the middle of the day, that would be ludicrous) I randomly had the idea of a store called Harbor Freight flash into my mind. Then the next morning I was sitting in my office. ![]() This computer facility was going to be a major part of our project and I was committed to become the best solar engineer I could in a couple of days. I had no way of getting in touch with him and I honestly doubted that he would know the answer, so I just kept on searching. Like I said, I barely knew the guy, had not seen him in 20 years and he was definitely getting old. I used to sell warehouse lighting to companies and so I knew a couple electrical contractors… I called them to see if they could answer my questions and they said, “No clue.” But one of them, Percy, mentioned that he thought that a guy he knew, Gary Excel, might know the answers to my questions. I had to talk to someone who I could just ask a couple very simple questions to in order to fill the gaps and allow everything else to make sense. I read everything that I could online and I even bought and read a book specific to my needs… but all of them assumed the reader had some kind of background in electrical engineering, and since I had ZERO background knowledge, the things that I was learning were just not adding up. No prob, right? Actually it got a bit confusing. So in addition to everything else, I had to become a small-scale, off grid solar engineer. Well, another thing that we wanted to do was to set up a solar powered computer station that we could use to teach community members computer skill and also use for communication and project maintenance. I was studying the administration of micro credit and organizing a team of ten for an international trip to Africa for a month. I was studying 24/7 on principles of soil fertility that we were going to teach the farmers we would work with and schematics of water filters made from sand and algae. Fast forward 20 years: As we were preparing for our first major international development project I had one million things that I needed to learn. Anyway, I barely knew him, just knew about him. The way the Mormon Church works is everyone volunteers, so he was an electrician by trade, I believe, and just volunteered to run the organization. When I went to church as a little boy the Bishop of our congregation was named Gary Excel. You show faith when you take an action that was based on belief, and that is exactly what we are talking about here with “really wanting something.” I recall a poem that I committed to memory years ago that I have recited to myself and others countless times: As a missionary we used to teach that faith was not a noun… but instead a verb. But in order to receive this assistance from the other realm… you have to want it so bad that you go after it. ![]() You can feel opportunities open to you at an uncanny rate and miracles flow. When you act upon your true desires you qualify for so much abundant support, it’s incredible. In the moments when you can feel a flame inside you because you want something so badly, know that there are hosts of angels (or whatever concept works for you) ready to help you achieve your aims if you will just trust and step out into the dark… just a bit. (Check out blog #6 for more info on this stuff). And when you feel those feelings you know that you are not operating alone. ![]() There are forces in the universe that have a vested interest in you becoming excited about something… you are being pulled into a plan of something that you need to do. There are powers at work outside yourself when you feel that true passion that lights your soul up with excitement. To really want something, or have a “true desire”, is not something that a mere mortal can just arbitrarily conjure up. Here goes: I believe this quote with all of my heart, but I have to qualify a couple things. ![]()
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