January 3rd ... Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro
January 24th ... Jackie Robinson 1st African American in Hall of Fame
February 20th ... John Glenn 1st American to orbit the Earth
March 7th ... Beatles' 1st broadcast on BBC radio
July 12th ... Rolling Stones 1st performance in London
August 5th ... Nelson Mandela arrested
August 5th ... Marilyn Monroe found dead
August 17th ... David Conley born in Alabama
September 29th ... John F. Kennedy sends troops to Ole Miss to enforce integration
October 1st ... Johnny Carson hosts the 1st "Tonight Show"
October 16th ... Cuban Missile Crisis began
November 6th ... Edward Kennedy Elected Senator of Massachusetts for the 1st time
December 31st ... "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host, Gene Rayburn
Where were you when all of these events occurred? Did you have any "say" about them? Could you have stopped any of them from occurring? Would you have wanted to? Did these events make you happy or sad?
We all have our "feelings" and "beliefs" about things and stuff. Often the reality does not match up with the "feeling" or the "belief". The fact is, that we don't even know the "reality" of most (if not all) of the events that occur in our lives. We only have the "reality" from our own perspective. Our pursuit in life is (and should be) to find what is the "real thing" that matters. Every experience, every gained knowledge, every feeling, every belief, should be interpreted in light of that "real thing"!
King Solomon (who had great wisdom and many more experiences than anyone) said he discovered that "real thing" ... "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
All of these listed events in 1962 are just "blips" in time ... some made greater ripples in the world than others, but they are still just "blips". Join me in 2014 as we look at some of my "blips" and how I have interpreted them in light of that "real thing".