Man in the Mirror PROJECT: Constancy

There is a saying among the masters that we must become "constant" in our practice, our thoughts, our words and our actions to be a successful student, pioneer, or make great change in the world or even our own personal lives.  It's the constancy you portray when you have made a commitment to be there for your children; every day and in every hour.  And the constancy that you expect god himself to have for you in your every hour of need.

Constancy is the philosophy that if we do a little each day toward the same goal eventually we will achieve it.  Like saving pennies, sooner or later you reach your desired goal.

With this concept in mind, I've thought again of the words from Mr Mandela when I first met him on the other side.  When I asked him how he was able to achieve the goals he wished for his country, he said very simply; I had a vision, and no matter what I kept my mind on the vision I wished to achieve.  He implemented constancy in his life and in his mission to change the lives of so many others.  Other men, even Michael Jackson himself, used constancy in his prayers to our father and in his ground breaking career.  Practicing to perfection and having a goal or vision that he never let escape from his mind.

When life gets difficult, its important to remember constancy.  A little at a time, each day toward your goal matters.  Below are more examples of constancy by other men and women across the ages:

• Hume working thirteen hours a day on the History of England
• Bunyan writing his Pilgrim's Progress on untwisted papers used to cork the bottles of milk brought with his meals.
• Newton writing his chronology sixteen times
• Webster spending thirty years on his dictionary
• A Field crossing the ocean fifty times to lay a cable while the world ridicules.
• Lucretius working nearly a lifetime on one poem.
• Virgil writing twelve years to produce the Aeneid
• DaVinci spending four years to paint the Mona Lisa
• Haydn enduring a hard life of persecution, subsisting by menial tasks, but remaining constant to his inner urge to write music until he finally brings forth his masterpiece, the oratorio The Creation.

Below is a video for another woman who held constancy in her heart for her mission to God.  Saint Therese, also known as the Little Flower, has been depicted as "persistent" in her efforts to serve God.  Her words near the end of her life that she would send showers of roses when called upon hold true for many people around the world.  Upon calling upon this persistent little flower, I once saw a lighted cross on the wall of my living room appear from no where and had the smell of roses fill entire rooms when no roses were present.

Constancy of will and of faith can always lead us, just like Therese,  to brighter paths in our lives. If we are constant in our reach for God or toward the things we desire in life, eventually the way is found.