Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

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I had balloons and icecream at one of my most recent Trybe programmes. What a joy to work in Trybe. Ha.

Lord, Captivate Us

Captivate Us
by Watermark

Your face is beautiful
And Your eyes are like the stars
Your gentle hands have healing
There inside the scars
Your loving arms they draw me near
And Your smile it brings me peace
Draw me closer oh my Lord
Draw me closer Lord to Thee

(chorus)
Captivate us, Lord Jesus
Set our eyes on You
Devastate us with Your presence
Falling down
And rushing river, draw us nearer
Holy fountain consume us with You
Captivate us Lord Jesus, with You

Your voice is powerful
And Your words are radiant bright
In Your breath and shadow
I will come close and abide
You whisper love and life divine
And Your fellowship is free
Draw me closer O my Lord
Draw me closer Lord to Thee

(chorus)

Let everything be lost in the shadows
Of the light of Your face
Let every chain be broken from me
As I’m bound in Your grace
For Your yoke is easy, Your burden is light
You’re full of wisdom, power and might
And every eye will see You

(chorus)

A real joke :P

Mirabel: (lifting up a pink blusher) Do you know what this is?

WM: Err.... a concealer (And he meant it)

Mirabel imagines a whole face with pink round spots all over because the person is trying to 'conceal' her pimples and imperfections with BLUSHER.

Ha. :)

You were great AH (fullstop)

It takes a whole lot more energy, brain-calories-burning thoughts, intentional-ity, grace and love, to say

"I think you were great because __________________ (traits to affirm in the person)"

than "I think you were great AH". (fullstop)



It's not just about the number of words.

Personally i think there is diminished value in simply saying that someone was great, without explaining why,
especially if you are not already close friends.

Go an extra mile (with extra pinches of grace) to tell the person directly what exactly he or she did great, because:

1. It pinpoints and affirms the exact God-given strengths the person has, allowing him to know so that he can utilise it more;
(not forgetting that it stirs up a lil' thanksgiving tune in his heart towards God)

2. The person may not even know that he has such a strength in the first place / or ever see it as a strength / or not even know he has strengths!

This is also a key that i caught in my years of mentoring the youths, many of whom really need light to shine upon their strengths and weaknesses, so that they can understand themselves better. :)

When you don't pack...

I often find things that I have put into my bag to bring home and leave there, still in my bag, day after day.

Such 'unpleasant discoveries' make me go ahhhhhhhh, because it means i have carried around unnecessary weight.

God dawned this in my mind last evening, when yet again, i found unpleasant discoveries as i opened my bag.

"If you don't pack, you will drag along unnecessary burdens".

Indeed if i do not leave time to reflect upon the happenings in my life, and pack my feelings and thoughts, i will non-consciously shoulder much unneccesary burdens as the days go on.

I hope you also leave time in your life to lay the past at the Cross, so that you can move ahead with greater and greater freedom. :)