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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Day 3 God’s guest list

I hope I am honoring Debbie Macomber by borrowing the theme of her book God’s Guest List, Welcoming Those Who Influence Our Lives, as the format I want to use in how becoming a new creation began for me.

We are now back to December 2014 and a guest who gets credit for planting the seed that reshaped how I viewed myself and those around me.  One of the principals in the accounting/consulting firm where I was employed gifted all of the employees (and there were a lot of us) with the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann.  As I read this book whose ‘fictional’ message was ostensibly how to have and maintain a successful business, I recognized an underlying and persuasive theme.  In an intriguing and delightful manner, a mentor teaches a young man the importance of relationships, how to create and maintain the best of the best. I was struck by how consistently the tale went into seeking the “good of the other;” although I didn’t have the words to express it that way until years later. I was peering into a realm of human connections that had NOT been part of my experience.  

God dropped his first bread crumb for me.


3 comments:

  1. I loved the Go Giver. A quick and simple read but with a powerful impact! I just read it last year.

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  2. Thanks for checking in

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  3. Hi Vicki! I think your blog is great. Being raised as a “cradle Catholic “, I always enjoy listening to a Catholic convert’s journey and views. Keep on blogging!

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