note to self: bring energy in the right way

Note to self: you will lean into a lot today — as you do, bring energy in the right way.

Being honest, yesterday you brought the wrong kind of energy at times. If you were to “roll tape” from yesterday, you’d cringe some. You didn’t steward the energy of your thoughts, words, and actions best at every turn. (Thank God there’s forgiveness for that and grace for today. No really, stop and burn some energy thanking Jesus for his real forgiveness for yesterday’s mess and today’s new measures of grace!)

So, here you are. Another day. The good works that you’re to walk into today will require legit muscle and proactive thoughtfulness. As a husband, dad, friend, leader — and disciple of Jesus — you need to bring the right kind of Christ-like energy to people. It’s okay to be a fixer . . . but more than “fixing,” expend effort — real energy — and bring tenderness, bring affirmation, bring joy, and bring hope with your solutions. (Your solutions, Wes, really aren’t all that outstanding likely anyway.)

And one more note to self — and some more good news: you don’t go it alone . . . the Holy Spirit enables you to bring His energy into each of these good works. Go for it. Lean into him. Enjoy the ride.

It all starts with a good idea, and it doesn’t

Often we get hung up waiting for the perfect idea to gel before we do anything. The problem that this creates is a lack of motion. We get pent up and inertia sets in. Yep, we do need great, right, refined, world-changing ideas — and we need “idea factories” producing them consistently. BUT we also need MOTION. Motion in the right direction (maybe not yet the perfect direction) can stir up right ideas and catalyze them into something worth working on.

Grab onto an idea that is in the right ballpark and get moving with it.

A rough idea + earnest movement = traction

We need more lives (yours! mine!) in motion towards making right stuff happen.


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