When I looked the first time, it was dreadful. There was mess everywhere and there didn’t appear to be any way through it. Everywhere seemed to be a mess. When I looked again, I saw the need for help in cleaning up. I saw the part I played in making the mess and the part […]
Read More Opportunity in the MessIt hurt to be passed over again. Frank was the only one of the 2016 influx who was still operating at advisor level. All the others had progressed in the company and several of those that he joined with were now in positions of middle management with a clear route to executive positions within the […]
Read More Faithful Through The ChallengesApparently it’s a familiar story. At first he didn’t think he could do it. He had seen others really do it well, but he never thought he could make it. He had a coach who trained him diligently and slowly but surely he made some progress. Then he had a chance to do it. And […]
Read More Looking Up, Staying GroundedApparently the view changes as you grow up. There was this thing about growing up in my childhood days. First it was about actual height and then it was the perks of what comes with being a grown up. As the middle child in the family, I’d look up to my sister as she got […]
Read More View: Up and AlongsideWhat Jesus Christ has done makes a significant change in how we live from day to day. There are things that I have done that I am not pleased with at all. It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s another to actively operate in a sinful and hurtful way. Likewise I have expereinced things […]
Read More Past But Not PresentThere were these two phrases that buzzed around my head, Let the dead bury the dead and Why do you seek the living among the dead? It still sounds like a very harsh statement from Jesus – let the dead bury the dead. He had called someone to follow Him and they had reasonably said […]
Read More Looking to the LivingIt’s remarkable how changing circumstances can affect us emotionally. Not remarkable in the sense that it really shouldn’t, more remarkable as to how it affects us in differing ways. There are some people I know whose whole mood lifts when it’s pay-day and that mood sags towards the middle of the month when they have […]
Read More Hope Helps You Look UpCan you imagine this? You’re a great leader. You’re at the forefront of a movement that has seen you defy all the odds. The greatest power of the day came to nothing because of the meek and humble approach with which you challenged them for the sake of justice. Now a people that were oppressed […]
Read More See It Then Live ItPerspective is quite something. We get an intimate close up. A man and his wife were living with his father’s family. Moving around with him from place to place. Eventually his father passes on and he hears a call to take his family to a different place to be given to them. He embarks on […]
Read More All That And You’re Only Just BeginningRecently I spent quality time with a friend in a coffess shop. That’s odd for me primarily because I don’t drink coffee. Apparently coffee shops offer more than coffee. Although at the prices offered, I am not in a rush to return to a coffee shop. In any case, this friend was the reason for […]
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