TAKING THE CHALLENGE OF MASONRY: BELIEF IN STRIVING

Reconstructing ourselves into a better-improved version requires insight, dedication, sacrifice. Enough with the search for meaning. Freemasonry gives us those phrases. But we need to articulate the process. What does one do with them?  What is the process of transformation?  What does it ask of me?  Do I risk failure?  The freemason in you is never alone but you are adrift in perilous seas.  The risk is of failing yourself. So we embrace that fear of failure to drive us forward learning as we go, to control not ignore our emotion.  Of the many who want it, who practice hard, who put themselves out to be judged by strangers, who attend the audition facing failure, only the best on that day will be offered the lead.  If your ego cannot learn from such failure, then you will never achieve your dreams. You will be stopped by your own hand.  Freemasonry brings out an audacious side of the male character. Until we understand, we must be audacious- trying even though our inner voice is saying it is useless, or lying to convince us we can do whatever we strive to achieve.  Life and reality are not like that.  

Freemasonry teaches us, in spite of the failures and hard knocks, we pick up and try again, and again, and again. And if we pay attention and seriously listen to ourselves, we will know whether we have potential for the chorus or first violin.  If you strive like this, you are of freemasonry- as enduring as a symphony- part lyric, part performer.

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Graham