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persectives
while you are far away, distance can distort the way things are for people…
when you get up close, you see the way things really are…
and that matters because that’s where these kids live…
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whose people?
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It’s Friday, we’re gonna make this early and short!
I read an article from a leader who talked about walking around the office and talking to his people. His people? That got me to thinking. As I thought about it, I began to see that the idea of talking about “my guys” is a way that I am endearing me in my own head to them. But, what am I really saying? Am I not giving my self credit that I don’t deserve? This is a top-down way of thinking. Is that a biblical way of thinking in the Kingdom of God? Maybe. Maybe not.
I once visited a school which had huge morale problems. The problems began at the top, the head principal had been rejected by the faculty in a vote (don’t ask) and his tenure began under a cloud. He kept his door closed most of the…
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complexity
in Mossel Bay, South Africa: inside a youth detention center, from the garden
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