Purpose, Time and Action

I awoke this morning out of a very inspirational dream. It seems that I found myself loading up equipment which I intended to "borrow" until I had become successful.

Mind you, I am in my 78th year!

It seems that I had been attending a seminar with some very skilled people, one whom I distinctly remember, my now deceased friend, Merwyn Hayes.

Merwyn was the epitome of success and loved by many.

Apparently, all the "equipment" needed to be successful was in that room. So, I loaded up the equipment on a push cart and headed out of the room. Humorous I know, as dreams often are!

As, I was pushing the loaded cart off the grounds, I realized that I could be accused of theft, so I turned back, located the individual responsible for the conference and convinced him of my intent. He just happened to be a former hospital executive whom I had known from my days with Leadership Winston-Salem.

What came out of me was a declaration of purpose so convincing that he joined my endeavor.

I then woke up!

Ironically, first thing this morning as I was checking my social media, one of my early bird banker friends had posted, "Great people do things before they're ready."

That seemed confirmation given that I seldom feel ready when I am prompted to take action.

Still feeling less than capable of the penmanship to which I aspire, this morning seemed a nudge to get on with my purpose.

Ironically, one of the images from the dream still lingering in my head was a smoking tire. It's the image one sees when a race car accelerates faster than the car's ability to overcome the inertia that holds it still.

There's a huge leadership lesson right here! If the accelerator is held down long enough, once the smoke clears and traction occurs, it's off to the races!

Perhaps it's time to take action, as I have been spinning my tires since "REPO, The Church in Foreclosure," my first book in 2009!

My tires long smoking, though held back from absolute transparency, given the potential for misunderstandings among folk whom I dearly love, but seemingly uninterested in other than their current apologetic proposition.

My life early on, was framed by a religious culture more about escapism than Christ-centric impact. Of course the limiting factors personally created early in my life didn't help. Once I came to Christ, becoming an institutional change agent was no easy road.

I am getting a lot of encouragement of late, so I need to push through (pray through) my heistancy, as I finish editing my sixth book, each with a little more traction and transparency. This one now entitled, "When Things Aren't Working."

The book attempts to walk the reader through the scriptures with three takeaways:

1. The scriptures were inspired, though revealing more about us than the "I Am", that inspiration filtered by our humanity, with a then negative transference of our ways to God. Easily evident once the Law was contrasted by way of the Christ, the Word made flesh. The text intended only as a tool for opening us to the Word?

   
   

2. Then through all the recorded drama of Isreal, a prophetic track was layed down long before the anticipated Messiah arrives upon it. He was then later hung "from a pole", an imagery offered as early as Numbers 21, then Psalm 53, along with the writings of the prophets, long before the Romans instituted crucifixion.

   
   

3. Now all three monotheistic, religious derivatives out of Abraham's lineage, with Crusade-like commitment are warring in the same region of the globe. Meanwhile a politically divided Christianity bickers as to possible outcomes, ranging from rapture to a current anti-Christ, some simply awaiting destruction, with a New Heaven and New Earth as a promise. All with biblical backing!

Could it be that a new apologetic is being framed, as was the case in 33 A.D. (C.E.)?