By Tony Batman
Published: 11-04-08
Dear Senator Obama:
I once heard all great living commences with a person’s quiet realization he or she will not play the coward’s role. This phrase from a 1988 Methodist church sermon changed my life.
It compelled me to start a business in1992. That business has become a wonderfully successful enterprise now employing 235 great people in our Dallas headquarters and indirectly responsible for the employment of at least 2500 more across the nation.
It all began with one solitary person who had nothing and a single idea which by itself had no weight. But together both had immeasurable power.
Hearing those words about not playing the coward’s role I recognized I could never deny the mysterious and powerful force of grace calling me to courage and action. That powerful transformational call moved me to do what is right and great in America.
I knew if I denied this powerful force I would be miserable with regret for the rest of my life. The regret of not living a life to its fullest is a form of death.
Since the founding of my company I have never again felt those same intense forces - until now. I again have the undeniable urge to do what is essential and what is important at the expense of all else. If I fight to suppress the overwhelming need to write this letter I will be forever out of integrity. I know I would again assuredly and miserably perish.
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