A family was driving through Kansas on vacation. Five-year-old Tyler was looking out the car window. “Boy,” he said, “it’s so flat out there, you can look farther than you can see.”

That’s a great phrase--“you can look farther than you can see.” Let’s talk for a few moments today about “looking farther than you can see.”

In the early 1930s an engineer named Joseph Strauss looked out over San Francisco Bay. In his mind he formed a picture of a beautiful bridge connecting the two sides of the bay. In 1936 the Golden Gate Bridge became a reality. He looked farther than he could see.

Many of you will remember when President George Bush the elder, father of our current president, was criticized for not focusing on long term goals and strategies. The former president agreed that he wasn’t ver…