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Our Council continues to grow, although we have our occasional speedbumps along the way. This is to be expected. Success as an organization does not come from an absence of obstacles, but from the ability to overcome them.
The years ahead of us will be difficult. In order to overcome the complacency that we have fallen into we will need to throw ourselves into action. Not just the 40-50 members who show up for meetings, or the few that keep the machine that is Council 47 running. We *all* need to move to action.
If there is a reason you aren’t active, let me know! If you don’t like the programs that are offered, send me an email. Suggest something new. Now is the time that we need to be creative and generate interest and enthusiasm. I am not above trying something new. The only sure way to fail is to not try.
I’ll borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps to encourage all of us to action:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Now is not the time to be timid.
God Bless-
David Conroy, Grand Knight
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