Sweet Spot

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:23:16 +0000

Sweet spots lay in the opportunity to have dialogue with a brilliant academic with a pastor’s heart and a passion to see students engage in learning with their souls. Sweet spots lay in sharing discourse with a woman of God who wants to change her world by reaching out to women who are under-resourced around the world. Sweet spots are realizing the future exists of endless paths of joy, and yet God is faithfully commandeering my life’s rudder to the One Path that is where His heart and who I was created to be, meet.
What is your sweet spot? Have you found it? Are you involved in a community that can be God’s voice to call it forth in you? Praying for it to be so for all of you……

Finding Expression for Differences of Opinion

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:48:44 +0000

I think a lot about the way we speak, express, ‘get off our chest’, our thoughts, dreams, desires, opinions. I think about it a lot especially when working with a team. How we express our shared values creates a wave of fluidity, energized by the common rush we feel when we all agree. How we express our differences, however, tends to change the wave into a torrent of dissonance that can cause severe damage. Allan Cox, in his book, Redefining Corporate Soul, says: “The smart team soon will learn that differences of opinion don’t cause problems; problems come from the way those differences are expressed.”
Should we paying more attention to the differences? Or more attention to finding the language and means of expression that will make those differences create energy and synergy? It’s all about expression…… What do you think?

Character

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:27:14 +0000

When John Mattone coaches leaders he reminds them of the following: “Great leaders—truly great leaders possess character. The word, “character” is from a Latin root that means “engraved”. A life, like a block of granite carved upon with care or hacked at with reckless disregard, will at the end, be either a masterpiece or marred rubble. Character, the composite of values and virtues etched in that living stone, will define its true worth. No cosmetic enhancement, no decorative drapery can make useless stone into enduring art. Only character can do that.”
Is what is being carved out of your life a masterpiece? Or marred rubble? As Living Stones, we have the opportunity to allow ourselves to be sculpted, through character-defining moments, into living monuments to the God-glory within us.
When is the last time you felt the scraping and the chiseling of the Master sculptor on your life?

Candoured Dialogue

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:08:52 +0000

“Conversation is…..

…..a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.” Theodore Zeldin
When is the last time you have had new playing cards created from a conversation you have had?