One of the weakness of myself is that I'm a control freak, I want to know everything, I want to understand all, to know where are we going, to be the driver on a car, and so on and on... since I discovered that weakness I try to allow others to take control... well, this time my Vegas trip, was awesome... I did not know what was even my flight number, neither the hotel... some one else was driving, and I was able to focus on the true purpose of my trip... wow... I can tell you, this was amazing not being in control of... NOTHING!!!!.... God allow us to grow when we work out our weak areas... I'm not there yet!
One of the things that is surprising to me today, is the low value that many people assign to their own promises. Teenagers don't believe their parents, because they never fulfill their promises; Couples say "I'll stand by you forever" and few months later they walk on the opposite direction; politicians make promises to earn votes, and once the election is done, they forgot about it. I remember one of the first things I learned from my grandmother it was the value of my word. "A gentleman always fulfill his promises, a man with no word has no honor" and I learned to live by that principle. Few weeks ago, I was having a discussion with one of the leaders on the youth ministry at Flamingo Road Church about some technical difficulties we were experiencing during the broadcasting of our Student Service online, and I challenged him to fix the failures, so if he would complete the task with no errors, I will do my hair like him... (He had a Mohawk haircut with ...
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