3 Points to Ponder
- “God is always speaking to us, but many times, we are too busy to pay attention. When is the last time you’ve slowed down enough to actually hear His voice?”
- “We were made to work. This does require a two-way street. Owners or those with resources — are you leaving some profits in your fields for others to glean or are you squeezing everything for yourself? Laborers or those lacking resources — are you actively working to harvest the resources intended for you or are you expecting someone to deliver those resources with no work?”
- “The work of transformation happens when we rewire how we think. This rewiring happens through deeper relationships and experiences. Books, conversations, confrontations, encounters, and self-reflection are all steps towards transformation. If someone looked at your life simply through the conversations you had and experiences you encountered, what would they conclude was the transformation you seek?”
2 Quotes to Share
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence — it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker
“Six years into our global data collection effort, we may have already found the single most searing, clarifying, helpful, world-altering fact. What the whole world wants is a good job. This is one of the most important discoveries Gallup has ever made.” – Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup
1 Story of Impact
I recently returned from Pignon, Haiti, as I led one of our Embrace IMPACT groups. During this time in Haiti, one of the activities we do is work alongside our Haitian cement workers and install a cement floor into a family’s home. To learn more about why cement floors matter, watch this video here. Our group happened to lay cement floor number 985 through Many Hands. It is an incredible number and we were humbled to help, serve, and give encouragement to the family. During this time, three of our main cement workers pulled me aside and wanted to talk with me. They reminded me that when I was with them six months ago, I said I would go back to the U.S.A. and find them more work. They wanted to remind me and make sure I understood, they were hungry for more work. They let me know they pray for me everyday to find them more work. They would put in thousands of cement floors, if the resources were available to them. This conversation hit me hard — when was the last time a worker of mine pulled me aside and pleaded with me to find them more work, as they are hungry and want to work? Two questions to end. One, how can we give these guys the resources to do more work? What is possible? And two, when was the last time you longed to work? If it was taken away, would your attitude change? Why do we need to wait till work is gone to have that genuine desire to make our impact through work?
