{"id":1278,"date":"2010-01-17T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2010-01-17T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:45:43","slug":"today-the-gathering-you-only-chase-rabbits-you-can%e2%80%99t-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-you-only-chase-rabbits-you-can%e2%80%99t-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: You Only Chase Rabbits You Can\u2019t Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IG_Icon\"<\/a>In Florida they race dogs.\u00a0 What I\u2019ve discovered about how they get these dogs to run so consistently and so fast is that they starve them and then put out in front of them, a rabbit.\u00a0 And they chase the rabbit around the track.\u00a0 The amazing thing is that if any dog ever catches the rabbit in the pursuit of it he\u2019ll never race again.<\/strong> They\u2019ll have to retire him, sell him or put him down.<\/p>\n

I see an awful lot of people around me who are chasing rabbits that they can catch; like the rabbits of status, or trophies, or toys that cost a lot of money and come with payments; maybe power and control, the status rabbit of choice.\u00a0 So the question is this: is life simply the art of chasing rabbits we can catch, buying things, consuming things, making life all about me?\u00a0 Or is there something bigger, better, and bolder about the way life should be lived?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take the tragedy in Haiti.\u00a0 It is human suffering beyond estimation and imagination.\u00a0 We see it on TV.\u00a0 Most of us will never go there or engage it face to face.\u00a0 So what do we do?\u00a0 We do about this what we do about almost everything else in our life.\u00a0 We throw money at it.\u00a0 We think that money, organizations and strategies are the key to everything.\u00a0 And while these are important, it falls way short.<\/p>\n

You are put on this planet to care about more than yourself, to serve a higher, more noble purpose.\u00a0 The very best way to respond to Haiti is to embrace the suffering.\u00a0 To respond to Haiti and embrace the suffering there is to embrace the suffering around you here.<\/p>\n

But what does that look like, to embrace the suffering around you here?\u00a0 It looks like what happens when people see things the way they shouldn\u2019t be and decide to make them as they ought to be.\u00a0 We start businesses, companies, and services.\u00a0 Some people call it Capitalism.\u00a0 Other people call it serving others.<\/p>\n

The day you wake up and realize that it\u2019s not all about you and start serving a higher, more noble purpose is the day you break free from all the petty, little grievances and worries that have kept you from being fully human, fully engaged, and fully alive.<\/p>\n

What are the rabbits in life that you are chasing?\u00a0 They were here before you got here, and will be here after you\u2019re gone, but you\u2019re making a difference.\u00a0 What are the goals, what are the problems, what are the issues you\u2019re willing to make your own and then pour your heart, mind and soul into, to make a difference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Florida they race dogs.\u00a0 What I\u2019ve discovered about how they get these dogs to run so consistently and so fast is that they starve them and then put out in front of them, a rabbit.\u00a0 And they chase the rabbit around the track.\u00a0 The amazing thing is that if any dog ever catches the … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering: You Only Chase Rabbits You Can\u2019t Catch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}