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                For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to go to Cape Canaveral, Florida and visit the “Kennedy Space Center”.   Last week, I got my chance. For an entire day, Sara and I wandered around marvelling over rockets, spacesuits and moon rocks.   It was incredible!                 The amazing thing about the space program is that it was built entirely on hope.   When John F. Kennedy made his famous speech stating that the United States was going to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, America had put a grand total of one astronaut into space.   In fact, that historic flight by Alan Shepherd was not even an orbital mission.   All he did was go up and come back down.   In other words, NASA had no plans, no hardware and no capability to do what the president said they were going to do.   All they had was the hope that

                Recently, the Estevan Motor Speedway crowned their track champions at their annual awards banquet.   One of the interesting stories of the night was that Joey Galloway won the Modified Division without winning a race.   Instead, the key to his success was consistency.   He just kept showing up and finishing in the top five every night.   While everyone wants to be the one holding the checkered flag at the end of the race night, Galloway proved that championships are built on steady performance over the long term.                 In a world that often focuses on the spectacular, it is good to remind ourselves that success usually comes from consistently doing ordinary, everyday tasks well.   Your kids may be impressed with your family vacation to Disneyland, but their lives will be shaped by how they are treated