Who Are You? (…no, really?)
This week has been one of the craziest weeks in the history of America. The financial crisis is no longer coming, it’s here. In this week alone, we’ve seen the fate of corporate giants like Lehman Brothers and AIG. We’ve witnessed Bank of America purchase Merrill Lynch. All while the Federal Reserve works with the world’s major central banks to pump $180 billion into money markets to minimize the effects of a global economic crisis. With huge multinational corporations facing bankruptcy, hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. It will be hard for these employees to recover financially and emotionally without knowing who they are.
I come in contact with a lot of people who define themselves by the position they hold. They develop the skill-set needed to do their job and lose themselves in the process. Many people spend so much time taking care of others that they lose touch with themselves in the process. And a lot of times people accept salvation, join a local church and think they have to live a perfect life. This causes them to lose who they really are. Even though a lot of people define themselves using their position in their company or annual salary, you don’t have to be one of those people. I want to ask you one simple question: who are you?
In October of last year, I had a major epiphany after reading a passage on laziness in the book of Proverbs. I realized that I was lazy. At first I was insulted and thought, “I work 10-12 hours daily for my businesses, for other people, for my church and I am lazy?!” Then, I decided to research the origins of the word and my findings shocked me. Today, when you hear the word ‘lazy’, you probably think of someone who is slow to move, even slower to act, wakes up late, and will lay on the couch all day looking at TV. But that’s not what the word lazy originally meant.
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