9/17/13...Today I experienced, with the help of others, an epiphany of wisdom regarding team based empowerment. Later, I wondered where this came from. In my head, there are brain cells causing thought. Somehow these cell tissues create and capture a thought from nothing. Think about this. There is no encyclopedia in my head. There is no internet device where I can google knowledge. Somehow wisdom forms in my flesh, in my cell tissues. When I die and a coroner examines my brain, this person will find no evidence this thought ever existed. There is nothing for them to read. There is nothing for them to google search. I find this a remarkable miracle and I am not even sure if you, the reader, can really appreciate the magnitude of this realization. St. Augustine, one of the pillars of Christianity, once wrote, "men go abroad, to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the long course of rivers, the vast compass of the oceans, the circular motion of the stars, but they pass by themselves and don't even notice." How true. Then I remembered reading a recent passage in the Book of Job. In the Book, God responds to Job's cries, "Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?" Indeed. I am perplexed regarding why this is resonating with me so much today. I feel this strong compulsion to one, write the wisdom down, and two, acknowledge God.
Here is the wisdom. There are three approaches in empowering work based teams; meeting based empowerment, event based empowerment and project based empowerment. Seemingly, a simple realization, but the depth within this realization is nothing less than monumental. Yesterday this wisdom eluded me. Today the parts coalesced in an epiphany of which I was able to verbally communicate to my boss and a peer. The threads of this thought came from others, but in my DNA, God planted the ability of Connectedness. According to Strengthsfinder, a firm who coined this word, anyone with a trait of Connectedness is able to see how all the parts connect. Once again, I think to the Book of Jeremiah where God speaks this truth, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." God formed this trait in me and knew the purposes behind the trait, sometimes which seemingly elude me.
Indeed, I am a creature, a human being, known by God before I was born. My formation is nothing less than a miracle of life, of whom God is the ultimate mother and father. This trait bestowed upon me connected today in a toil realization. I started writing about this experience without acknowledging God in it. After writing a page and reading the words, I realized how hollow this wisdom was. Why? No where in the words did I acknowledge my Creator who bestowed this gift on me. My words were empty, and prideful. Most strikingly there was no depth in what I wrote. Realizing this, I scratched over an hour's worth of words. I then thought about God and started writing again. And suddenly I felt energized, appreciative, and grateful for this gift today. No longer do my words seem hollow, without depth nor prideful, instead they feel alive.
Here is the wisdom. There are three approaches in empowering work based teams; meeting based empowerment, event based empowerment and project based empowerment. Seemingly, a simple realization, but the depth within this realization is nothing less than monumental. Yesterday this wisdom eluded me. Today the parts coalesced in an epiphany of which I was able to verbally communicate to my boss and a peer. The threads of this thought came from others, but in my DNA, God planted the ability of Connectedness. According to Strengthsfinder, a firm who coined this word, anyone with a trait of Connectedness is able to see how all the parts connect. Once again, I think to the Book of Jeremiah where God speaks this truth, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." God formed this trait in me and knew the purposes behind the trait, sometimes which seemingly elude me.
Indeed, I am a creature, a human being, known by God before I was born. My formation is nothing less than a miracle of life, of whom God is the ultimate mother and father. This trait bestowed upon me connected today in a toil realization. I started writing about this experience without acknowledging God in it. After writing a page and reading the words, I realized how hollow this wisdom was. Why? No where in the words did I acknowledge my Creator who bestowed this gift on me. My words were empty, and prideful. Most strikingly there was no depth in what I wrote. Realizing this, I scratched over an hour's worth of words. I then thought about God and started writing again. And suddenly I felt energized, appreciative, and grateful for this gift today. No longer do my words seem hollow, without depth nor prideful, instead they feel alive.
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