Choosing Wisely

These are the cycles that I was speaking about on Sunday.  This is not original, it came from a presentation in one of our sessions at the Arrow leadership course by the new president of Arrow Leadership Canada, Dr. Steve Brown, and he cited that it was developed further in a book by James Lawrence entitled  Growing Leaders.  Wherever it came from it seems to hit home with many people.  On The Grace side you may want to take a look at Ephesians as you think about it.  1. Acceptance (Eph. 2:4-5)  2.Filling (Eph 2:7)  3. Identity (Eph 2:1)   4. Fruitfulness (Eph 2:10).  We are so hard wired to try to impress wether we are extraverts or introverts, “doers” or “dreamers”, motivated or lazy, it just doesn’t matter.  We all want to be accepted.  Thats what I love about Grace, it pushes past all of our angst and accepts us anyway.  The funny thing about this is that many of us would try to break the cycle of grief by being committed to do a whole host of things that help to remind us of who we are in Christ.  Thats exactly the problem right?  It just puts us back into the first cycle feeling bad that we don’t measure up.  its way harder to break the cycle of grief, but lets pray for the strength to do it.