Authenticity

Offerings for the Over-stressed

by Andy Wood on August 4, 2015

in Esteem, Executing Your Plan, Five LV Laws, Life Currency, LV Cycle, Principle of Freedom, Waiting

You live in what feels like a constant state of tension. Even your “good stress” is, well, stress. You check the news at least each day to make sure you’re on top of the latest thing to worry about. Your time is stretched so thin that any interruption or change of plans sends you reeling emotionally.

Your credit cards are loaded to the max, and your life feels a lot like your email inbox – loaded with clutter, junk, and unfinished business – some of which is actually important.

Your best sleep comes after 2:00 in the morning. You avoid those medical checkups because you already know what they’re going to say. Unless, of course, you need to get that prescription refilled.

And then…

…then, somebody comes along, usually on a Sunday, and says…

“Let’s worship Jesus!”

And honestly, it just feels like another reason to feel anxious.

What if I were to tell you that if you’re harried and helpless, stressed out or fried emotionally, the Bible actually gets where you’re coming from? If I could show you a way to magnificently worship the Lord Jesus, even when you’re at the end of your rope, would you be interested?

This is an Offering for the Overworked, overstressed, overeating, over-fill-in-your-blank.

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No Such Thing as an Insecure Leader

by Andy Wood on October 3, 2012

in Enlarging Your Capacity, Five LV Laws, Hoarders, Leadership, Life Currency, LV Alter-egos, LV Cycle, Principle of Freedom

One of the most famous child self-introductions in history took place in Cincinnati when Martha Taft was asked to introduce herself to her classmates.  She stood and said, “My name is Martha Bowers Taft. My great-grandfather was President of the United States. My grandfather was a United States senator. My daddy is ambassador to Ireland. And I am a Brownie.”

Love it, love it, love it!  What Martha may or may not have known at the time was that she was demonstrating leadership in the making.  With a simple statement she was saying, “I know who I am and where I came from.”  She was wonderfully free to be herself.  And that’s part of the stuff of ongoing leadership.

Nothing to prove.  Nothing to hide.  No one to manipulate.  No one to pretend to be, other than yourself.

Compare that to another group of so-called leaders who were anything-but.  They never lowered themselves to lift one finger to help somebody in need.  Everything they did was for attention.  They basked in the attention of being “all-that” at public functions.  They insisted on being called by their respectful titles in public.

Important?  Yes… every time they looked in a mirror.

Leaders?  Hardly.

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