Starting it, maintaining it, developing it, cultivating it, maximising it, moving on from it.
Various e stages that can take place in an initiative. From daily chores to audacious desire. It has been my privilege to be involved in some projects which went through those stages.
One of the best bits is the start. The small beginnings. The conversations between a small number of us, maybe just two. An idea of what could happen. Further conversations and prayers. Looking out for opportunities here and there. Seeing how it would fit, coming back to the initial vision.
There’s a sense that even as things pick up and shoots of growth turns into a clearer signs of a fertile place that we don’t get ahead of ourselves. With each minor victory there can be a sense of strengthened resolve to suggest that it’s not the end – it’s only just beginning.
It’s especially exciting when one or two others notice key developments and themselves get excited about things as though massive strides have been made. Yet there’s a feeling in the core that again it is just the start of something. Every day is really seen as a new opportunity to in some degree see a start in an element of the enterprise.
It’s even sweeter when it’s come through some stern tests and setbacks. It’s especially joyous coming through when we allowed it to die and seem like it could never happen. When we took our hands off it and left it from our agenda and our mind. And then God in His grace entrusted it to us again and that which was dormant and considered redundant returned with a significant impact in the lives of those who needed it the most. And for all those victories the sentiment was the same – in the gratitude and acknowledgement of the mercies and kindness, it was clear that this was still just the start.
With that kind of thinking there was also the feeling that if this was just the start, there was plenty to look forward to!
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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