From: Dcuster <dcuster@nando.net>
Subject: A thought from Father Don's Store Front Church
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How DO YOU KNOW

Who ever said that you
  couldn't do
Exactly the thing that
  you're planned to do?
Who ever thought that you
  couldn't climb
Up with the sun to heights
  sublime?
Who has advised you to
  check your pace,
Give up the struggle and
  lose the race,
Crawl off discouraged and
  hide your face?
Nobody but you.

You are the one who has
  done it all --
Deserted your castles and
  let 'em fall,
Smothered the spark of
  ambition's fire,
Shut off the current and
  cut the wire.
How do you know when
  the crowd goes past
Who'll be the leader, and
  who'll be the last?
How do you know?

Life is not merely a game
  of chance,
And you're not the victim
  of circumstance.
Nothing's too hard for a 
  man to do
Providing of course, he
  wishes to.
Wishes it more than a miser's wealth
More than an invalid longs
  for health.
Works for it, prays for it --
  night and day,
Feels that no price is too
  great to pay.
How do you know till
  you strive that way?
How do you know?