What happens — in you, in your world, in your business — when you bring everything into the heart of Love? The issues you’re grappling with, that seem so thorny, so tenacious. Your business. Your thoughts and feelings, beliefs, patterns and pictures. Your gifts and joys, your challenges and sorrows. Love is the most powerful force there is — it is the presence and activity of the Sacred within everything. As we begin this week of the summer solstice, explore…
Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair. (2 Samuel 18:9 HCSB) I don’t think Absalom planned for his day to go this way. No matter what our best laid plans, once they meet up with the reality of our world anything…
And, just like that, I am reminded that the words we speak and the way they are spoken are brutally powerful. I wonder what last words her family and friends will remember with her. Speak wisely today. Use your words and your attitude – to speak as if they are the “very words of God”. Love your people and let them know. Because you never know when they might just run to the store and then be gone.
The little bothers in life can suddenly become big ugly issues. Words that don’t even really matter get said in hateful ugly ways out of habit. The enemy uses the words and the attitudes of others to cause pain. That way it keeps us tied up in doubting our abilities. It builds up fear that we are not good enough, and it holds us back from God’s best. Giving the silent treatment, ignoring people, those are love killers. That’s not…
If I don’t get still to begin my day, if I don’t center from the get-go with the Almighty, then my crazy brain scatters like spaghetti and I find myself chasing every fear known to woman and every insecurity I have had since birth comes front and center. Even fears I forgot I had will sometimes surface. And, if that’s not enough, I am even known to spin whole new insecurities in the process! It ain’t a pretty sight. No-sir-ee….
I adore Paul for reminding me that it’s awesome to be awkward, that I don’t always have the exact right thing to say… and that the gifts I have inside are what is needed right now, for me, and those I’m impacting. I believe this is true Leadership: giving ourselves permission to be powerfully God’s girl, or His chosen one – as the ship on the sea, travelling toward the Son alongside other beautiful sailing vessels… Even if we don’t…
