In challenging times, we have to be proactive with our vision. Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, New York Times Bestselling author inspires us. After hearing this presentation online, I knew I wanted to listen again and take notes. Here they are. I think you’ll be encouraged by this.

Know that every vision will be challenged

It could be related to the economy or it could be some other crisis. The corollary to this is that all visionaries have challenging times. Challenging times are not unexpected. Anyone who has carried a vision for anything knows this.

How the challenging time comes to us may be unexpected.  But challenging times are not unexpected. We may even feel we have come to the edge with our challenge.

Think about it this way. It is an invitation to step up. Challenging times are an invitation to become someone we have never become before, to do something we have never done before, to achieve something at a new, more expansive level.

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I’ve only just a minute, only sixty seconds in it.

Forced upon me, can’t refuse it, didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it,

But it’s up to me to use it.

I must suffer if I lose it, give an account if I abuse it,

Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.

Benjamin E. Mays lived with a conviction about the sacredness of time – even one minute of time.  How could our lives change if we had the same belief?

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