I read a thought-provoking post by my friend, Steve Reed yesterday. Steve posted, “Gratitude is one of the most important aspects of life.” If I were to ask for what you are grateful for today, I can only imagine the number of wonderful life outcomes that would be listed, and I would be extremely happy for you. How many would say that they are happy for the dark places they’ve gone to or are going through in their lives? I suspect not many. As I pondered Steve’s post and his question, “How are you doing with this?” I thought back to a presentation delivered during the weekly Ziglar Monday Morning Devotional by army veteran and motivational speaker, Trevon Ferguson who spoke about so much that grows in the dark places. How many of you are grateful for the dark places through which you have journeyed through life, which as Trevon reminded us, begins in a dark place. -> At our very beginning as the psalmist wrote, “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.” Ps 139:13 -> Practicing your sport, alone in an empty facility because you need to be better to play more. -> Think of how many major businesses faced extinction only to come out of the darkness as a powerful force. -> The seed that without the darkness of being surrounded by dirt is nothing more than a seed. Leaders recognize the times that they are a seed, in the darkness, surrounded by dirt. It is in that darkness that leaders sprout their roots and break through the ground with a vision into which their teams can identify. Zig Ziglar taught, “Your altitude is determined by your attitude of gratitude.” When you give thanks, do you include the dark places in life where you have grown?
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