An acquaintance of mine Jasmine Tate wrote a song and one of the lines in the song says, “In the valley Giants come to die”. It is a great song with an even greater message.
After the death of his son, pastor and author Rick Warren said this, "I can endure pain if I see a purpose in it. But sadly, most people squander their suffering, don't profit from their problems, never learn from their losses and are unable to advance from their adversity or gain from their pain."
I’m reading a book right now titled, LEADERSHIP PAIN, by Samuel R. Chand. In this book and many others I have read the author quotes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s, ON DEATH AND DYING. In that book she lists the stages that she believes people go through when they lose a loved one. The main thing I have taken from the book LEADERSHIP PAIN is that, if you want to grow you will have to go through pain because there is no growth without the pain of change. Leadership and pain are often inseparable and we must grow through, as well as just go through our pain.
Every time I have to learn something new it tends to be painful. I get a new computer, where do you turn this thing on—it’s painful. Move the furniture, get out of bed in the dark—it can be painful. Get a new car, and you go to get in and bang your head against the door frame.
1 Peter 5:10 (ESV) “And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
Rick Warren lists the stages of grief as, “shock, sorrow, struggle, surrender, sanctification and service.” What I want you to come away from this Blog with today is, if you are going through something keep going. There will be something that you will come away with that you cannot get any other way. Let pain have its purpose. Never waste your pain. Even Jesus learned through suffering. The world will be less impressed with our successes than they will be with our suffering. Share your sorrows and manage to make a message from your mistakes.
Romans 5:3-5 (ESV) “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
After the death of his son, pastor and author Rick Warren said this, "I can endure pain if I see a purpose in it. But sadly, most people squander their suffering, don't profit from their problems, never learn from their losses and are unable to advance from their adversity or gain from their pain."
I’m reading a book right now titled, LEADERSHIP PAIN, by Samuel R. Chand. In this book and many others I have read the author quotes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s, ON DEATH AND DYING. In that book she lists the stages that she believes people go through when they lose a loved one. The main thing I have taken from the book LEADERSHIP PAIN is that, if you want to grow you will have to go through pain because there is no growth without the pain of change. Leadership and pain are often inseparable and we must grow through, as well as just go through our pain.
Every time I have to learn something new it tends to be painful. I get a new computer, where do you turn this thing on—it’s painful. Move the furniture, get out of bed in the dark—it can be painful. Get a new car, and you go to get in and bang your head against the door frame.
1 Peter 5:10 (ESV) “And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
Rick Warren lists the stages of grief as, “shock, sorrow, struggle, surrender, sanctification and service.” What I want you to come away from this Blog with today is, if you are going through something keep going. There will be something that you will come away with that you cannot get any other way. Let pain have its purpose. Never waste your pain. Even Jesus learned through suffering. The world will be less impressed with our successes than they will be with our suffering. Share your sorrows and manage to make a message from your mistakes.
Romans 5:3-5 (ESV) “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
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