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Evening - Start of my day
By randy | November 22, 2007
As I wrote my little taste of thankfulness WE night, I since have had the pleasure of having yet another urban friend Arthur Mance, aka “Cephus” of Live Christ Like (LCL) send me a pod cast that he is listening to about leadership for church planters from Mark Driscol the pastor at Mars Hill about a new way to look at Nehemiah. He is talking about the need to live a leadership principal that leaders should start their day in the evening. So tonight I am beginning to start to live my leadership each day starting the night before. Some who pay attention to the time stamps of e-mails would say I already do but it has not been with this intent.
So my evenings will be much less in watching the weekly serials of the secular world or watching as much NCAA b-ball (A very serious love of mine) but will be in evaluating how that particular day was lived and what it will take to make tomorrow count more than the one I am closing.
As I am listening to this Michael W. Smiths Christmas album “It’s a Wonderful Christmas” I write this and live in contemplation. Mark stated that if you watch Christ’s life closely it represented a contemplative evening in prayer many times after a day of ministry life and many times before great ministry moments.
I continue to see God preparing the way and placing the smallest details in nuggets of information for my spiritual growth. May you at some point this weekend or MO or TU get to hear this fine album through your high speed connection and play it through an enhanced computer speaker system like I have which is not a Bose but for the pennies I spent has sure brought many hours of great musical enjoyment.
“It’s a Wonderful Christmas” by MWS a moving experience
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January 25th, 2011 at 9:00 am
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June 22nd, 2011 at 5:35 am
Sorry for the long overdue response but God has brought a family move into our life and just have not had the time to blog much less respond. I pray that now a few months down the road you have tried to begin to end your day as I wrote about by contemplating how to live tomorrow as Christ modeled so well. It is not normal in this fast paced and high tech world to slow oneself down to not write one last e-mail or respond to the last text message just before turning in. Yet consider the connection that Christ had with His Father, God Almighty and I believe once realized you will come to the same conclusion that being in tune with His Son by quieting our hearts, minds and life as we retire the evening will ultimately allow us to make more sense out of life as we experience it.
Randy