{"id":110948,"date":"2022-03-23T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110948"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:15:51","slug":"a-gift-from-the-heart-what-does-commitment-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110948-a-gift-from-the-heart-what-does-commitment-look-like","title":{"rendered":"A Gift from the Heart: What Does Commitment Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0 Tom Smyth, beloved long-time MSIA minister, initiate and MSIA Rep in the Colorado MSIA community, passed unexpectedly into Spirit on March 3rd<\/sup>, 2022. He passed doing what he loved \u2014 skiing \u2014 in a beautiful, heavenly spot.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Madonna, Tom\u2019s wife, wanted to share with all of us these words of wisdom Tom wrote years ago.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometime in the future when things aren\u2019t quite right and some of the pizzazz seems to be gone from your life, right then is the time to recommit to whatever it is you are doing.<\/p>\n

Remember what commitment felt like?\u00a0 Being crystal clear about what you wanted to do.\u00a0 Being on contract.\u00a0 Willing to do whatever it took.\u00a0 Not having a clue how it would work out, just knowing that it would.\u00a0 Actually being the solution, not part of the problem.\u00a0 Never saying \u201cBut,\u201d just sticking a foot forward until you got where you were going.<\/p>\n

You had a strength that never faltered, a faith that was overpowering.\u00a0 Your stories and considerations could never stop you.\u00a0 You were creative, ingenious, timely, laser-like, excited, successful.\u00a0 You got results.\u00a0 You were willing to put your own ass on the line, you made winners out of losers.\u00a0 Solutions gravitated to you, you were that powerful.\u00a0 You created Miracles in your own life, Miracles for others.<\/p>\n

Through all this, you experienced your own greatness, your own purpose, your own worth.\u00a0 And from this comes Satisfaction, from this comes Peace that endures.<\/p>\n

Given all this, why would you choose to be anything less?\u00a0 Re-commit to Life at its fullest, experience the greatness that is you, the greatness in others.\u00a0 It works.<\/p>\n

Tom Smyth<\/p>\n

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God bless Tom\u2019s Soul in God’s Heart, and Light to his wife Madonna and all who love Tom and miss his physical presence.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

We love you Tom and Madonna!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0 Tom Smyth, beloved long-time MSIA minister, initiate and MSIA Rep in the Colorado MSIA community, passed unexpectedly into Spirit on March 3rd, 2022. He passed doing what he loved \u2014 skiing \u2014 in a beautiful, heavenly spot.\u00a0 Madonna, Tom\u2019s wife, wanted to share with all of us these words of wisdom Tom wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}