What I'm reading, writing, and thinking about.
I love serving at SonSet Solutions for many reasons. One of them is that leadership cares about personal and professional development. They give latitude to our staff to grow in ways we see that we need to and allow us to use various means to achieve that growth. For me, reading is one of those ways.
I’ve read little about Winston Churchill over the years and I thought it was time to fix that. Churchill was a remarkable leader who was placed in his position sovereignly by God (as all leaders are, Romans 13:1). He was exactly who England needed at the helm to hold back the Nazis.
Interesting tidbit: he hated whistling! He didn’t do it himself and couldn’t stand for anyone around him to whistle. I do not share that trait.
I’m a chronic mouth-breather and have been since I can remember. It’s always been difficult to breathe through my nose; it feels as if there’s a blockage that won’t ever come out. Imagine breathing through a straw…that’s what it feels like for me, 24/7.
Mouth-breathing isn’t healthy and I’m working to correct it. I picked up this book at the library because Nestor did 10 years of research, travel, and personal experiments (on himself!) to uncover why breathing correctly is so important. I was blown away by the historical research and the physiological implications of breathing correctly.
In light of the war between Israel and Hamas, I went looking for an account of the holocaust that I’d not seen before. Night by Elie Wiesel is an “unmistakably autobiographical account of the author’s own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany’s death camps.”
From the Goodreads summary, “Told through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet unfolds with a heart-wrenching inevitability.” I was moved to tears more than once while listening to this book.
I’ve been part of a new leadership development effort at the church my family is part of. A group of about 12 guys are going through this book by Malphurs. It’s been valuable, not just in what I’m gleaning from the book, but also in the deepening relationships among the guys in the group.
God is showing me that just as he builds and balances his church with congregants who have unique characteristics in the categories of styles, gifts, approaches, and spiritual gifts, he constructs leadership teams in the same way.