{"id":2227,"date":"2010-07-28T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open4life.wordpress.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:02:01","slug":"i-have-a-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/man-skilz.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/28\/i-have-a-need\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a need to share…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been neglecting my writing here for a few really bad reasons. The primary one is my mad obsession with tweeting. No really. I tweet for social reasons (of course) and for work. I am looking for work, promoting projects and even promoting sites or causes in which I believe.\u00a0You can see most of my posts on this site, or via my Facebook<\/a> or Linked-In<\/a> pages. Yes, yes its true. I really do need the attention.<\/p>\n

Lately, I have cut back on my writing. I am no longer writing the Travel Logs and I am not working at Big Green or the sticker company any longer. \u00a0I am officially an out-of-work nerd and techno-weenie. Yet, I have been in need to express things that God has put in my heart. I haven\u2019t really been sharing them here, as I normally would. It’s a classic example of not turning-left** when God tells me to. (See post.)<\/a> If that is due to worldly things weighing on my heart or a lack of faith in the scope of my effect on the world through this medium, I am not entirely sure.<\/p>\n

I mean, I know there are more talented writers out there. My wife shared one of them with me the other day. He is a really impressive read. I have\u00a0to say that I was actually, honestly moved. Not just by the words and the\u00a0eloquence\u00a0of the\u00a0writer, but by the fact that this person was really sharing his soul. It had been a while since I have been able to read someone else\u2019s work and feel like they were truly baring themselves to us, as the reader. This is what I hope to achieve some day.<\/p>\n

Where does that leave me, right now. Well I have to say that I realized that I have written more involved and\u00a0impassioned\u00a0EMAILS to friends and of course my wife, than I have with you all. I haven’t written about things I really, honestly cared about in quite some time. Opinions, rants, causes, what have you. You deserve better, more importantly He, (God) deserves better. He demands my best. He is the one who called me to write to begin with. I am called to write about my most honest and bare emotions, my struggles, my\u00a0successes. It should all be a testimony to my faith and the way He has modeled for me to live. (There are still things that are off-limits, things that are within the family, or between friends, like that time\u2026 he he, never mind. Seriously though, those things aren\u2019t really about me and therefore are not mine to share.)<\/p>\n

What I want is to share the amazing power of God in our lives.\u00a0I want to tell you that I believe in the power of prayer. I have had so many prayers answered in my wife, my son, and my friends and family.\u00a0I know that I have been put here to do great works and that He has amazing plans that will show the unconditional love and great works that our Lord works through us. I am focused on sharing His unfailing love and provision in my life, both personal and in business\/work.<\/p>\n

So, \u00a0I am doing free-lance work again. I \u00a0promote my company Acuhire<\/del>\u00a0Quorum HR Solutions<\/a> and its products and services. I am looking for an opportunity to be and do something great.<\/p>\n

Hmm, \u201cOpportunity\u201d is not the right word. \u201cOpportunity\u201d is reminiscent of 7:am power meetings and 8:pm coffee meetings with sponsors and up-lines. I have been approached with too many \u201copportunities\u201d lately. Apparently I can earn $5,000 a week by scanning link submissions for Google and Yahoo!. I can take a $10,000 position being a foreign news\u00a0correspondent\u2019s\u00a0assistant if I just cash his checks and move into his apartment. (By the way this last one is sponsored by those guys in Nigeria who send you forged checks and set you up as the pansy for the forgery charge). I can also pay $500 for the marketing deal of a life time, I get the\u00a0privilege\u00a0of spending money I don\u2019t have to get a \u201cmarketing solution\u201d that tells me how to make a million dollars that I won\u2019t get doing something I am not at all interested in doing. I don\u2019t want to be in on the next\u00a0\u201dReal-Estate Boom\u201d, sell foreign currency and I have no interest in marketing for a wholesale\u00a0tele-com.<\/p>\n

It’s all \u00a0just too focused on trying to make a buck, trying to be a better salesman. It puts a company, a product, a person, above the one who really should have our worship and focus. That big check is not more important than My God and the work I do for His glory, and yet that is all we end up focused on. It supposes that WE can make the world, or at least OUR world, better ALL BY OURSELVES and the reality is, we aren’t\u00a0equipped\u00a0to handle that challenge or responsibility. We have to rely on the one who made us in His image. We have to rely on the power and grace He is all too willing to provide. As the Blog title says: Just Ask…<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, I am a small business owner.\u00a0I am trying to grow a business while looking for work. I believe in hard work. I believe in the power of God\u2019s plan in my life. I believe that I can use my business to share His love through integrity, hard work and as an example of a life with Him.\u00a0\u00a0I am working to promote our products and create new products that will help others in their businesses. I am working to promote a Godly work ethic and corporate morals that are worthy of an heir to His throne.<\/p>\n

Maybe then I can figure out the balance to being a hero at home AND in the corporate world.***<\/p>\n

***I have ADHD and I have lived with it for as long as I can remember. It\u2019s a \u00a0learning \/ coping challenge or difference that does not allow me to process information the same way as the majority of the population. I go though periods where I have a complete inability to function but have for most of my life found that regular\u00a0exercise\u00a0and meditation greatly reduce those spells both in number and duration. My biggest challenge has been in dealing with stress. In the past I would excel at work and take on the monsters of corporate life but I would literally have nothing left for home. I realized that I was the cause of so many issues at home that I was not able to see truly because I had nothing left by the time I came home. I had to seek God\u2019s strength and\u00a0guidance to change my focus, and He brought me down to my lowest level in order to build me back up. Now, I KNOW that my family is the most important thing but, I needed to\u00a0figure out how to be the hero of the home again. I needed to remember that I am married to the most amazing woman in the world ONLY because, at one point, I was an amazing man. I was an amazing man because I took care of her like she needed and deserved to be cared for, I honored her, I treated her like my queen. That is just the relationship with my wife. I also had to remember that I am the first male interaction my kids will have and thus model. Boys will learn to lead their home the same way, they will talk, discipline, problem solve, negotiate, play, and show love and respect .. all as I do. Girls will look for those same qualities in their future boyfriends, and husbands. I must show them that they too are amazing and wonderful.<\/p>\n

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We are all children of the King <\/strong>and thus worthy of great people in their lives. ( Galatians\u00a03:29\u00a0\/ Galatians\u00a04:6-7\u00a0)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am actually going to a “Men’s Conference” on the very same topic ( “A Hero Worth Following.” ). I invite readers, friends and family to join me. More information can be found at: http:\/\/www.efcc.org\/mens-events\/<\/a> under Men’s Challenge 2010. Also tickets are available to the breakfast<\/a> which I hope you join me at as well…<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading and for comments\u2026
– Be Yourself, Be Well, and Be Loved,<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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