The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director. Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year. God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
"Count your blessings...name them one by one...count your many blessings see what God has done..." Anybody besides me remember that hymn? I have a journal where I do nothing but count my blessings! It's called my "Things I Love" journal. I write on good days in the Things I Love journal and just make lists and lists and lists of things I love. Then on the "not so good" days I read that journal. Without fail it always lifts me up because I have counted my blessings and reminded myself of all God has done. In reality, He doesn't have to "do" anything else -- He's already done it all by sending Jesus, but amazingly He just keeps blowing our mind and giving us more blessings!! So today I thought I'd name a few blessings I'm excited about. Keep in mind, I don't just write super spiritual gobbledegook in my Things I Love journal. I write everyday stuff like, "What a blessing banana night is at Bruste...