Are you a dot?
In June 2005 Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation, delivered the commencement address to the Stanford University graduating class. A full transcript of his speech entitled Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish is available here.
He speaks of love and loss, and death; but it is his story of connecting dots that comes to mind as I contemplate how God is working in Africa.
I imagine it’s in an earthly sense that Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking back. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” [click to continue…]
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Many times over the last few years my attention has been drawn to Luke and The Parable of the Shrewd Manager, as the New International Version calls it. Other versions refer to this passage as The Parable of the Unjust Steward.
“Man is surely stark raving mad,” Michel de Montaigne said. “He can’t make a worm, but he makes gods by the dozen.” I imagine that we’re all aware of the subtlety and insidiousness of idolatry, yet how many times, in how many ways, do we set idols before God?
Business can sometimes be that to me. Not that business is wrong, irredeemable. No – simply, it needs always to be kept in its place, always and fully consecrated to God.
I believe for the time being it is my calling to be ‘in business’. I love it. At the same time it’s exciting and repetitive, challenging and easy, there are successes and there are bitter disappointments, people exceed expectations, people fail dismally. [click to continue…]
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