change happens when persistence outlasts resistance. if I have been anything it has been persistent. not just this year either but maybe my whole life. at a young age I was persistence that I learn to play the piano. thankfully my parents we’re not resistant to that idea and developed that talent with many years of expensive lessons and patient listening to banging tunes.
in college I was persistent about who I was going to marry and outlasted my beautiful wife’s resistance to the whole idea and three break-ups, two kids, and a mortgage later, I am now finding how persistent she can be.
i have been persistent about realHope and its need to exist and survive. and I have outlasted the resistance of this idea from its inception in many shapes and forms to see that it stays on course. not without its bumps and bruises along the way. not without a testing of my own convictions. this persistent, as resistance gives way, has made me change. change in greater ways this year than even I expected.
some lessons I learned from a year of change;
persistence isn’t enough; you have to have guts to stand up for your convictions. otherwise expect the vision to be hijacked.
you make decisions every day – either to do something significant or to do nothing at all. it is the significant ones that actually make things happen.
we need more diversity in our lives, and quite frankly, the church should be the one organization where this is practice more often than any other place.
trees need pruning and so do communities. only then can new growth be experienced.
jesus changed the world and he ask us to follow him even if it is hard. but he also promised he’d never leave us even when it is hard. simply put, he has not forgotten me or you.
You rock, Jere-bear. Great post!
Wait, Christie is persistent?
She must be or we would not have been talked into making giant plastic spiders until 4 in the morning. Good thing we have wives that are persistent or we might not accomplish anything…they want us to do.