I think the one thing I've learned over the last week is just how much easier life is when you start looking at the positive, and let the negative just roll off your back.
I guess it takes coming to the end of what you think you have inside of you and then ... jumping off some kind of proverbial pier. This has been such a wonderful week of learning. Yes, there has been a fair share of crap. There has been the usual bickering and arguing. There has been situation after situation that makes me want to run away screaming. There has been cat pee in a puddle under the bed. .
But there has come a beautiful moment when everything seems to not even matter anymore. It doesn't matter if people know who I am or what I do. It doesn't matter if this place is thankless and if I have no future here. The thing is that I am learning. And learning a LOT thank you. There is something marvelous about leadership classes in that they tend to give this strange sense of optimism. That no matter how crappy things may seem, there is always a way to make it better. There is somehow, somewhere, a way to get a group of people to start forming a team. A way for two people to stop hurting each other and start loving each other.
Instead of all of the bad moments, learn to focus on the good. Look for that sliver of gold nestled in among the rocks and the dirt. Learn to find one good thing in someone and tell them about it. Learn to say "I'm Sorry" and "I was wrong". Learn that personal agendas are nowhere near as important as the team objective.
And most of all, I've learned that to start working together we need to understand each other and to understand each other we need to love each other. May God's grace be the glue that binds us together. May we learn to love like Christ loved.
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