I Kings 17:8-16

The widow founder herself in an impossible situation.  Being a widow is always precarious, then add a three-year drought, combined with Elijah asking her for food and water, and she knows the handful of meal she has left will only give her one more meal.  Then she will die.

Impossible is far too real for many people today who face drought, hunger, poverty, war, disease, violence, injustice.  They are the silent heroes, the ones who persevere despite enormous odds and barriers, victims often of greed and unjust policies, who face Impossible everyday.

So I share words of Mohamed Ali as we face Impossible in our own lives, as he did in his, one who never backed down from a fight, whether it be in the ring, standing for his principles, speaking for the voiceless, or his own battle with Parkinson’s:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.  Impossible is not a fact.  It is an opinion.  Impossible is not a declaration.  It’s a dare.  Impossible is potential.  Impossible is temporary.  Impossible is nothing.

Thank you, Mr. Ali.  Already the world misses your eloquence and your courage.