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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From Fox’s Book of Martyrs: History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions under Nero
In Matthew’s gospel, when Jesus asked his disciples: “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter was the first to answer, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus responded, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn’t get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.” [click to continue…]
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