Tag: Choices

Prayers for the guts to fire the devil

empty, cold parking lot
Life on the road is often cold and lonely – we see what we want to see, no?

 

We either began yesterday on our knees or we didn’t.

Only one person in charge of counting our blessings.

One.

Sometimes, we see this CEO counting excuses instead.

Why this CEO isn’t fired is beyond explanation.

Prayers for the guts to fire the devil.

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Eight days until April Fool’s Day

Delta mobile app screen shot of upcoming flights
There is never any excuse, not even a busy travel schedule

 

What stops us from starting every single day on our knees?

Seriously, how is that too much to ask?

So the other five-year milestone anniversary on April Fool’s day – a lesser known and invisible habit – is starting each day, knees bent and touching the floor, hands folded, silently reciting three important prayers.

Seriously, how is that too much to ask?

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This pales, but at first it seemed massively inconvenient

Lethbridge viaduct
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada will be without clean water for at least a week

 

What at first seemed extraordinarily inconvenient and unsafe has quickly been rethought.

A boil water advisory for the next several days.

This so pales in comparison to the Malaysian Jet with 239 passengers that is still missing after six days.

Or a High School classmate’s Son (28) lost to a drunk driver.

Pales.

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Life is hard, and we are busy and distracted

Post It note display at Office Max
A metaphor for the overwhelming number of options for each individual choice.

 

This reminds me of the corporate world, and when organizations restructure to make things better. Always intrigued by the thought and effort spent on restructuring leadership karma. From the Bible:

“No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37) And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38) But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39) And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’

Life is hard.

We know this.

Up to each of us to deal with it effectively.

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