Leadership Thought: Stuck in a Rut, I’ve Got Good News.

Dear Friends, 

A man walked into a fortune teller’s tent at a carnival and paid his money to have his palm read. “I see many things,” the fortune teller said. “Like what?” the man asked. “You will be poor and unhappy until you are forty- five,” she stated.  “Oh,” he said dejectedly. Then he had a thought and asked, “What will happen when I am forty-five?”  “You will get used to it.” she said.

There are people like this man who have become used to living without hope of change. They are locked into their life with little or no hope for change. 

Our expectations can play a significant role in shaping our attitude.  Ben Franklin said, “Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall receive it.” And how true that is. If you don’t expect much from life you won’t be disappointed. If you don’t think change is possible, you won’t change.

Dead end thinking will never be the solution to change. We need to believe change is possible and that we can become the subjects of that change.

If you happen to be a person who feels you are stuck in a rut, I have good news for you. Your life can change. There’s time to write a postscript to your story. Even if you believe life has dealt you a poor hand, you can walk away a winner.

The good news I have to share comes from the Good News, written by God but penned by a couple of His followers named Jeremiah and Paul. Together their words provide the solution for the change you’re looking for.  Listen with the ears of your heart to the hope they offer: “For I know the thoughts I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). When we trust God and allow him to grow us to become more like Christ in how we respond and act then we are promised, “That all things will work together for good to those who love Him and keep His commandments” (Romans 8:28).

Stuck in a Rut? Why not trust in these words, but add to them the thoughts of the late Christopher Reeves, the renowned actor who spent the last nine years of his life completely paralyzed, the result of a horse-riding accident. He said, “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”

Yours in faith and friendship,
Tom