10. The Seed of Perspective
I’d Rather Watch a Winner
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day,
I’d rather have one walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear.
And the best of all the coaches are the ones who live their creeds;
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true;
But I’d rather get my lessons by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give;
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day!
Summary
The Seeds of Greatness are the responses or attitudes you develop as a result of “seeing” the world more clearly, you see yourself as valuable and your self-esteem grows stronger. Seeing clearly enables your imagination to create and soar. Seeing more clearly gives you the understanding that you are responsible for learning as much and contributing as much as you can to life.
When you see life within, you see wisdom, purpose, and faith as cornerstones of you family’s foundation. You see through the eyes of love and reach out and touch all those with whom you come in contact. Seeing from within is having the courage to adapt to change and to persevere when the odds seem overwhelming. Seeing from within is to believe that beauty and goodness are worth planting every day.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Seed of Perserverance
9. The Seed of Perseverance
Perseverance is similar to faith, but it is different in that it is the test of faith. Perseverance is hanging in there when the odds stack up against you, but you know you’re right.
A strong belief in God is fundamental to Total Success. To believe you are an integral part of God’s plan. With this belief you are able to develop creative imagination, self-esteem, wisdom, goals and a deep faith in your convictions and commitments. Your faith has a strong root system that will allow you to bend and grow with the winds of change without breaking. This ability to bend and spring back is demonstrated in the ability to adapt in the habit of looking at the bright side even in the darkest situation.
Perseverance is similar to faith, but it is different in that it is the test of faith. Perseverance is hanging in there when the odds stack up against you, but you know you’re right.
A strong belief in God is fundamental to Total Success. To believe you are an integral part of God’s plan. With this belief you are able to develop creative imagination, self-esteem, wisdom, goals and a deep faith in your convictions and commitments. Your faith has a strong root system that will allow you to bend and grow with the winds of change without breaking. This ability to bend and spring back is demonstrated in the ability to adapt in the habit of looking at the bright side even in the darkest situation.
The Seed of Adaptability
8. The Seed of Adaptability
Adapt: to fit for a new use; make suitable 2. To adjust (ones self) to a new situation or environment. 3. To become adjusted to a circumstance or environment.
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting (adapting) to one another in the fear of God.
22. Wives, submit (adapt your self) to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear and easy load,
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peak alone,
And transform every stumbling blockInto a stepping stone. by Gail Brook Burket
Adapt: to fit for a new use; make suitable 2. To adjust (ones self) to a new situation or environment. 3. To become adjusted to a circumstance or environment.
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting (adapting) to one another in the fear of God.
22. Wives, submit (adapt your self) to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear and easy load,
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peak alone,
And transform every stumbling blockInto a stepping stone. by Gail Brook Burket
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Seeds of Faith
7. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose to believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t.
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose to believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Seed of Communication
6. The Seed of Communication
Two very important aspects of communication are empathy and love.
The Sioux Indians have a prayer that goes like this; “Oh Great Spirit, grant me the wisdom to walk in another’s moccasins before I criticize or pass judgement.”
Empathy: is the “feeling for” for an individual; it is the process of trying to understand the other person’s point of view, as if you were that person. Empathy is when you watch the marathon runners at the 20-mile mark, and your own legs ache. Empathy is watching a rerun of one of the Rocky Movies and hardly being able to lift your arms at the end of round fifteen.
It is important to try to view the world of others as they see it---rather than as we see it. One way to do that is to look for the good in others, regardless how different their appearance, their life style, and their particular beliefs are from your own. By looking for the good in others, you are communicating love. Love is the one message we all need most.
Love Letters To Live By
I Corinthians 13
Love is the act of demonstrating value for and looking for the good in another person.
L---is for LISTEN. To love someone is to listen unconditionally to his/her values and needs without prejudice.
O---is for OVERLOOK. To love someone is to overlook flaws an the faults in favour of looking for the good..
V---is for VOICE. To love someone is to voice your approval of him/her on a regular basis. There is no substitute for honest encouragement, positive “strokes” and praise.
E---is for EFFORT. To love someone is to make a constant effort to spend time, to make the sacrifice, to go the extra mile to show your interest.
Love requires independence and is based upon the ability to share your self with others out of choice, not out of dependent need. True love is that relationship formed by two individuals who have the ability of separately sustaining themselves. Only independent people are free to choose to stay in a relationship. People who are dependent remain in a relationship out of necessity.
Two very important aspects of communication are empathy and love.
The Sioux Indians have a prayer that goes like this; “Oh Great Spirit, grant me the wisdom to walk in another’s moccasins before I criticize or pass judgement.”
Empathy: is the “feeling for” for an individual; it is the process of trying to understand the other person’s point of view, as if you were that person. Empathy is when you watch the marathon runners at the 20-mile mark, and your own legs ache. Empathy is watching a rerun of one of the Rocky Movies and hardly being able to lift your arms at the end of round fifteen.
It is important to try to view the world of others as they see it---rather than as we see it. One way to do that is to look for the good in others, regardless how different their appearance, their life style, and their particular beliefs are from your own. By looking for the good in others, you are communicating love. Love is the one message we all need most.
Love Letters To Live By
I Corinthians 13
Love is the act of demonstrating value for and looking for the good in another person.
L---is for LISTEN. To love someone is to listen unconditionally to his/her values and needs without prejudice.
O---is for OVERLOOK. To love someone is to overlook flaws an the faults in favour of looking for the good..
V---is for VOICE. To love someone is to voice your approval of him/her on a regular basis. There is no substitute for honest encouragement, positive “strokes” and praise.
E---is for EFFORT. To love someone is to make a constant effort to spend time, to make the sacrifice, to go the extra mile to show your interest.
Love requires independence and is based upon the ability to share your self with others out of choice, not out of dependent need. True love is that relationship formed by two individuals who have the ability of separately sustaining themselves. Only independent people are free to choose to stay in a relationship. People who are dependent remain in a relationship out of necessity.
The Seed of Purpose
5. The Seed of Purpose
Remember in Alice in Wonderland, when Alice comes to the junction in the road that leads in different directions and she asks the Cheshire-Cat for advice? “Cheshire-Puss… Would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where____” said Alice.
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
The grinning feline spoke words of truth, didn’t he?
If we don’t know where we want to go, then any road will take us there---and it doesn’t matter what we do in life.
I believe that God has given each one of us a purpose in life; He not only gave us that purpose but He also gave us the ability to achieve that purpose.
Psalm 139:13-16 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are Your works and that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth
Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Without purpose (vision) in life the Bible said we will perish (be made useless)(cast off restraint)(run wild) or we have nothing motivating us, keeping us on track. Proverbs 29:18
Remember in Alice in Wonderland, when Alice comes to the junction in the road that leads in different directions and she asks the Cheshire-Cat for advice? “Cheshire-Puss… Would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where____” said Alice.
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
The grinning feline spoke words of truth, didn’t he?
If we don’t know where we want to go, then any road will take us there---and it doesn’t matter what we do in life.
I believe that God has given each one of us a purpose in life; He not only gave us that purpose but He also gave us the ability to achieve that purpose.
Psalm 139:13-16 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are Your works and that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth
Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Without purpose (vision) in life the Bible said we will perish (be made useless)(cast off restraint)(run wild) or we have nothing motivating us, keeping us on track. Proverbs 29:18
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