The lovers, the dreamers, and a frog.

So. You're sitting on your couch, watching a movie. To be exact, The Muppet Movie. Thoroughly enjoying it, and then the inevitable happens. You become inspired.

How?

by a little frog, sitting on a log in the middle of a swamp, playing a banjo. Does this strike you as odd? Being a firm lover of the Muppets, no. But it isn't the scene that is making you think, it's the words floating softly from out the swamp and into your living room.

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows,
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide.

So we've been told and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong, wait and see
Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers, and me."

The song ends, but it makes an impact. The feeling that Kermit had just been voicing all your hopes and fears for the future persists, making you somehow excited, and ridiculously giddy.

Then, the movie comes towards it's end, and once more, you see the simple little frog. But now, he is surrounded by a studio, sitting in a director's chair, and looking about in awe as his dreams explode before him into a wonderful rainbow of fulfilled hopes. Once more, his words hit you.

"It starts when we're kids. I show off at school. Making faces at friends. you're a clown and a fool! .......... ignoring you're homework it's that dedication, you look in the mirror: You're getting standing ovations!"

You feel silly, getting so excited and realizing that, wow, a frog has the same dreams as you! And he succeeded in making those dreams come true! He beat the odds! And you think, what a brilliant idea, I need to share it with everyone! so you go to your blog, and begin to type....erase it.....retype it...erase it....and type it again. You want to share it. Share the feeling that nothing is impossible, that you can be anything, so long as you hope and pray and try your darndest. "But what a stupid way to present it!" you protest. "A frog inspired you??"

"But...."

"They'll all laugh at you, stupid!"

"Maybe so," stubbornly. "But this was too cool to keep all to myself."

So you march through your task. No longer feeling silly, sideways, backwards, or ridiculous. you feel free, light, easy. You can be anything, accomplish anything. And so can everyone else. Faith hope, and a li'le bi' o' luck. Add this to lots o' prayer, and you've got the world by the collar. What promise the future holds! Isn't it beautiful to be alive??