Piloting Faith: Your top five people...

A Word for the Day...

In a meeting today in New York my friend John said, "You are the average of the five people in your life with whom you spend the most time." That made me pause.

He's has a point. The people we spend the most time with influence our dreams, goals, actions, self-esteem, opportunities, and values.

Think about your "Top 5." Do they:

• Inspire you,

• Challenge you,

• Teach you,

• Advocate for you,

• Love you,

• Think of you,

• Push you,

• Trust you,

• Propel you,

• Embolden you,

• Mentor you,

• Sustain you,

• Guide you,

• Enliven you,

• Deepen you,

• Provoke you,

• Dare you,

• Awaken you...

...to more than you believed possible for yourself? If so, hold them close. If not, make some changes. Build a team that brings out the best in you. We are meant to do life together, as a team, joined together by a loving God who is FOR every one of us.
- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

Prayer for the Week

To the One
who laughingly gave us
language
and absconded
with its limits:

I smile
to think of all
your names
I may never know.

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May the God who dwells beyond us
and the God who dwells among us
and the God who calls us to dwell together
bless you now
and always.

- Jan Richardson, Sacred Journeys