Space is all there is.
We are either filling, emptying, arranging or refilling.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: August 4, 2020
Grow
A knife does not cut itself. It is used by others on others, with no personal responsibility for its actions.
The same is true for humans with no self-awareness or consciousness. Like knives, they do not see their role in circumstances and see themselves as just tools being used.
This is why feedback is important, especially one that either causes a storm or complete stillness within you.
You can either see it as a mirror to see and improve self or see it as an attempt to use you as a tool.
However you see it, life will reward you disproportionately depending on how you grow or how you swell with feedback.
I hope you grow.
– Osasu Oviawe
High expectations, deep commitments
Ezekiel 3:17-21
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, `You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your life. Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you will have saved your life.”
Homily:
Imagine the responsibility.
Imagine the courage required.
Imagine the consequences.
High expectations require deep commitments.