Today I am taking a break from my typical topics of life and leadership as an idea hit me while eating recently at Cafe Aladdin in Fargo. While enjoying their beef and lamb gyro on pita bread with tzatziki sauce, the best gyro I’ve had, and watching the owner greet most customers by name, I wrote down my favorite “local” food items around Fargo-Moorhead. I enjoyed making the list so much I decided to share it with you!
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Have you ever determined a direction, set a goal, got off to a good start, but later realize you veered off course? In the Old Testament book of Ezra we read about this happening to the Israelites. Two factors knocked the Israelites off course, and they are the same factors that can knock us off.
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My greatest fears and life wounds are: the fear of rejection, abandonment, loneliness and failure. Growing up I felt “poor” so my entire life the spirit of money has whispered in my ear that money would protect me from my fears; money would insulate me from the pain of rejection, abandonment and loneliness, and as long as I had money I would never feel like a failure. Is that true?
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I have two recurring dreams. In the first dream, I show up to attend a church service and someone tells me that I am preaching. I calmly reply no, I am only here to attend. Others enter the discussion and soon everyone is convinced I am supposed to speak. the more I resist, the more they insist. As the service starts, everyone sits and waits until I get up and say something.
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I did not grow up around men or women with military experience. As an adult I was thankful for and respectful of those who served our country in the military, but still had little exposure to those with military experience. That began to change when our son came home three months before high school graduation and told us he was meeting with an Army recruiter.
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