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¡°The Lord God is our light and protector. He gives us grace and glory. No good thing will the Lord withhold from those who do what is right.¡° ( Psalm 84:11 , NIV ) |
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SUCCESS, there are so many people trying to achieve it! It must be something really difficult. I hope there is a lot of it to go around or I'll probably be out of luck. And then, it seems like people who have it can't seem to keep it. Is that why they end up doing some really stupid things? They think they have it, then they don't, then they do something stupid to prove that they really do have it. I guess I really don't understand it, success that is.
It seems to me that the way we understand success shows how we see the world. If the world is a place of limited good, if there's not enough good to go around, then becoming successful only happens at the expense of others. Being successful means I must take something good from someone else so they can't have it. My mother told me in preschool that wasn't nice.
But what if success if something that we create? What if being successful is something like doing good? Then, the more good we do, the more successful we will be. And that would mean there would be plenty of success for everybody. In fact, it would mean we could be as successful as we wanted to be without having to win anything, or take anything, or step on anyone. In fact, those things would be just the opposite of success. They would be an un-success. Weird, isn't it? |
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Father, grant us the success of goodness. In Jesus' name. Amen. - STANLEY GRANBERG, Portland, Oregon |
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