Today I offer you no leadership lesson, and no specific action plan.
Instead, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to all who read my blog, and especially to those of you who add your thoughts and comments. My hope is that it adds value to you in your business and your life. I just want you to know that I am grateful for you!
Happy Thanksgiving,
This week has been one filled with great inspiration and sorrow for me.
I am writing this from one of the most beautiful locations I have ever been to. I am at Malibu, which is a Young Life Camp located in Canada in a narrow fjord called Princess Louisa Inlet. The first picture included here shows the beauty of this place. The other is my inspiration for this post.
On Monday, I arrived here with my son Wesley and about 50 young people from our church. We are here to serve the families of US military who have recently returned from deployment in Afghanistan or Iraq. Some have only been back in the states for a few weeks, and this is the first real down time they have had with their wives, husbands and kids.
Re-entry can be very difficult, and my role has been to serve as a small group leader with a few couples. It has been truly rich and wonderful.
I am writing this from a nice little hotel in a suburb of Tijuana Mexico. I’m here this week with my family, friends and clients. Five years ago we started our annual trek to a very impoverished community in Tijuana called Valle Verde. We travel down here to help the people of Valle Verde by building homes, building a community center, and doing some needed repairs.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and as we all remember to be a little more thankful, I am struck by the people I know who live with this attitude daily. I’d like to tell you about a couple of these people who have inspired me.
The first is a friend named Hector, who lives down here in Valle Verde. In his earlier years, Hector raised five children in a one room shanty and rode a scooter for transportation as he looked for work. There is no way for me to do his story justice here, but what I want to share is that he is a man who has known what it is like to have very, very little.
