New Year

It is a the eve of a new year, and it is always important to reflect on your year.

Here are my initial thoughts. This year brought wonderous things, and yet has me stretched thin. Thin to a point of breaking I feel.

But I shall carry on... forge ahead, because the projects I am involved in are good ones.

I am committed to the following:

Making a better effort to help around the house.

Work on being a better listener, especially to my wife.

Work on avoiding gossip and petty politics at all costs, and being brave enough to voice my opinion when needed.

Being a better father by taking time each day to help and spend time with my daughters.

Doing the right thing....

The Burning Bush

I've heard the story of the burning bush many times, but I never really understood its true message. Or at least a message that I could relate to.

The story of course is quite legendary. The story of Moses alone talks to God through the a flaming bush. God through the bush, tells Moses that it is he who must lead his people out of Egypt. Upon hearing this story in the past I took it as it was, I simple story. God telling Moses to do something . And who wouldn't listen to God? or a burning bush that was talking to you?

But there seemed to be so much more to this story when I heard it recently. Moses doesn't believe himself to be leadership material. This story is God's first big pep talk. God inspires Moses... he doesn't command him... he persuades him... He reasons with him. And Moses responds.... it is the first step that every leader must take. It is a step that only leads forward and not backward.

And lead Moses does. He needs to lead with persuasion and conviction... and he does.

That is the lesson I learned. Leading is a vision, then sharing the vision with passion and conviction and even ruffling feathers along the way.

The Burning Bush is inside of us all.