DDGM Messages for 2008-2009

IMotivation is a word that implies movement. It means the difference in getting up and doing something rather than just sitting there and doing nothing or letting someone else do it - that is apathy and indifference. Webster defines motivation as "causing or having the power to cause motion; an impulse from within." Success in the business world is based on motivation; these same factors can be applied to Masonry where the wages are satisfaction, pride in a job well done, the inner glow of personal accomplishment and something good done for one's fellow man. Efficiency is an excellent word for the other member; but let's put on that hat ourselves and start where we should start, with number one ... ME ... all the Masonic Education and candidate training available will not help. Efficiency takes imagination; and imagination goes hand in hand with initiative. Imagination is not necessarily being far out and impossible. Imagination can be the difference between routine and real progress. Originate and invent ideas and then give them a hell of a try. Nearly everything in our modern world today is the result of imagination. Technology, medicine, space flight and even communication and the internet. That which is now in use was once only imagined.

Brethren we have the man power to make this fraternity the best in the world with great ideas coming from all over this jurisdiction, don't leave it up to the other guy, let it come from us. Even the smallest idea can grow into something enormous and can help us expand not only this lodge but every lodge in Ontario . Let us be the one to step forward and say I'll chair the Friend to Friend or the Brother to Brother programs. We have the backing of Grand Lodge just by asking. Today we must move forward with new thoughts, if we look at the card that was printed by our Grand Master with just a few simple thoughts to inform interested people we would be no farther ahead today if we looked the other way and let those ideas shrivel and die. Brethren in closing this fraternity are ours, we can make it or break it, the future is in our hands, let's make a difference.