June 16, 2020 – Osasu Oviawe

Powerful innovation comes with blank spaces. A space for posterity to fill. The really smart innovators understand that their work no matter how perfect, will remain incomplete, no matter how hard they try. And that is okay. They generously leave blank spaces for you.

The grateful thing to do is to step up and fill the space you are best fitted for, not knock them for not being able to complete their work.

The greatest creators started by filling the blank spaces left by others, before building their own creation. In appreciation for the generosity of the blank spaces they met, they provide new blank spaces for others.

Our job is not to complete our work. It is to perfect it and leave blank spaces for posterity to complete.

– Osasu Oviawe

Matthew 5:43-48
“You have heard that it was said, `You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Homily:

This is advice that is difficult to follow, but it works. It is hard, but it works.

The Ben Franklin Effect is an interesting concept built on this foundational advice.

It works.

Day: June 16, 2020

Blank spaces

Love your enemies