Greatness

I started reading a book for work this evening, "Great by Choice." I love to read and am always looking for a good book to read, especially one that is going to feed me or teach me something. My boss chooses books and we go through them with our management group in a monthly meeting. I think this is pretty awesome as it gives me a reason to read something outside of whatever book I'm currently reading, plus it's a free book. How can a girl disagree with that?

I've only read the first chapter of this book, but clearly by the title, it insinuates that greatness is a choice; something we choose to be or not to be. The first chapter was only about the study that generated the content for the book, so there was not a lot of meat on how we go about choosing greatness for ourselves.

In the secular, job, career world I think greatness is defined differently than how we define the greatness that God gives us. And often times it is hard to reconcile the two. How do we go about accomplishing the goals of our job and still honor God with our actions and words? How do we interact with our co-workers, how do we interact when we have to make decisions that affect people's lives?

Every morning on my way to work I pray for the day. I pray for the people I work with. I pray for myself and how I know God wants me to handle situations. And everyday I fail. Everyday I know I could have said something differently, spent more time talking to someone, simply asking how someone's day is going. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in the things I need to accomplish in the day that I don't take time to interact with the people I work with.

Because I fail everyday at greatness in my job, do I fail at greatness everyday? I don't think so. I fail everyday but keeping God as the center of my day is about as great as you can get. However, I even fail at that on a daily basis during certain times of the day.

Is this book going to give me all the answers on how to be great at my job? No. I could read 100 books related to being successful and every time I would learn something new. There is only one book to turn to, to learn the keys of ultimate eternal greatness. And I could read the same verse and every time I would learn something new from it. The Bible is a book that keeps teaching us and feeding us no matter how many times we read it.

Over the course of our lives we determine what we allow into our lives and what we choose to follow. Who we choose to follow says more about our greatness as individuals than any other path we choose. Greatness is a life long process and the ultimate judge of that will not be our boss, our co workers, our friends, our family. I choose to live and strive to live in greatness of the One who will ultimately judge my life. If we all do that everything else will fall in place.


Today I'm thankful for

1) game night and prayer time with my CLG
2) my co workers