Doing Something You Love

P.O Box 1540, Albany Western Australia 6331
Phone/Fax: (08) 98 418 418
E-mail: abl-alb@omninet.net.au

Doing Something You Love
Friends, Dean Kamen has made a name for himself with quality-of-life inventions. This genius created a portable kidney dialysis machine and later invented a wheelchair versatile enough to climb stairs and stand on two wheels. Someone recently called him a synthesis of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Now the world is waiting to see if Kamen’s latest invention will live up tot the hype surrounding its introduction. The Segway Human Transporter is a two-wheeled, self-propelled scooter that can travel at about 7kmh. Five gyroscopes monitor a rider’s centre of gravity nearly 100 times a second and both keep you balanced and sense the direction you wish to travel by the way your body leans. I don’t know if it will revolutionize the world, but experts are saying the intuitive technology of the Segway HT’s gyroscopes could have far-reaching applications for things ranging from vehicles to artificial limbs. A mechanical device that can copy the balancing function of the human ear is quite a technological feat. But enough about “IT.” I’m more interested in its human inventor. The man who concocted a vehicle that he says is “like a pair of magic sneakers” attributes the inspiration for his work to his father. “Pick something you love and make it your life’s work,” Kamen’s dad told him. What wonderful advice! What about your life? If you begrudge your prosaic and conventional life, I challenge you to rethink not your life situation, but your attitude toward it. You see, creativity isn’t just for the entrepreneurial engineers who invent things. It is for those of us who have 9-5 jobs, sell gadgets, and count beans. It is the contagious spirit of those vibrant souls who are always dreaming and trying to find a better way to do the everyday things. It is the courage to be in the minority. It is living a daily spiritual adventure, whose goal is to honour God in everything you do. Surely this was at the heart of the apostle Paul’s counsel when he wrote his first letter to the Corinthians (chapter 10, verse 31) where he said: “Whatever you do, eating or drinking or anything else, everything should be done to bring glory to God.” So friends, if you are bored or boring today, perhaps it’s nobody’s fault but your own. Thank you for taking the time to read what I’ve written today. If I can be of any assistance to you in your personal spiritual journey, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Email me or write to me at P.O Box 1540, Albany W.A 6331. Telephone / Fax (08) 98 418 418

Friends, Dean Kamen has made a name for himself with quality-of-life inventions. This genius created a portable kidney dialysis machine and later invented a wheelchair versatile enough to climb stairs and stand on two wheels. Someone recently called him a synthesis of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

Now the world is waiting to see if Kamen’s latest invention will live up tot the hype surrounding its introduction. The Segway Human Transporter is a two-wheeled, self-propelled scooter that can travel at about 7kmh. Five gyroscopes monitor a rider’s centre of gravity nearly 100 times a second and both keep you balanced and sense the direction you wish to travel by the way your body leans.

I don’t know if it will revolutionize the world, but experts are saying the intuitive technology of the Segway HT’s gyroscopes could have far-reaching applications for things ranging from vehicles to artificial limbs. A mechanical device that can copy the balancing function of the human ear is quite a technological feat.

But enough about “IT.” I’m more interested in its human inventor. The man who concocted a vehicle that he says is “like a pair of magic sneakers” attributes the inspiration for his work to his father. “Pick something you love and make it your life’s work,” Kamen’s dad told him. What wonderful advice!

What about your life? If you begrudge your prosaic and conventional life, I challenge you to rethink not your life situation, but your attitude toward it.

You see, creativity isn’t just for the entrepreneurial engineers who invent things. It is for those of us who have 9-5 jobs, sell gadgets, and count beans. It is the contagious spirit of those vibrant souls who are always dreaming and trying to find a better way to do the everyday things. It is the courage to be in the minority. It is living a daily spiritual adventure, whose goal is to honour God in everything you do.

Surely this was at the heart of the apostle Paul’s counsel when he wrote his first letter to the Corinthians (chapter 10, verse 31) where he said: “Whatever you do, eating or drinking or anything else, everything should be done to bring glory to God.” So friends, if you are bored or boring today, perhaps it’s nobody’s fault but your own.

Thank you for taking the time to read what I’ve written today. If I can be of any assistance to you in your personal spiritual journey, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Email me
or write to me at
P.O Box 1540,
Albany W.A 6331.

Telephone / Fax (08) 98 418 418