3 days after my appraisal and receiving the last milestone messages I met a client and the conversation ended up being more about my life š!
The classic controls you can put over your life with:
- Minimalism
- Cutting out alcohol
- Reading
- Listening to the others’ needs, not imposing yours
- Just sitting back and being there
- Asking together what do you want now, not in the future
- Making all decisions together
Then 5 days after that, the Deutero-Isaiah Suffering Servant readings kicked off Holy Week (same week Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire) and it really does impact you more when you’ve done a study.
Isaiah 50:4-9
Who thinks he has a case against me? Let him approach me
The Lord has given me a discipleās tongue.
So that I may know how to reply to the wearied he provides me with speech.
Each morning he wakes me to hear, to listen like a disciple.
The Lord has opened my ear.
For my part, I made no resistance, neither did I turn away.
I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard;
I did not cover my face against insult and spittle.
The Lord comes to my help, so that I am untouched by the insults.
So, too, I set my face like flint; I know I shall not be shamed.
My vindicator is here at hand. Does anyone start proceedings against me?
Then let us go to court together. Who thinks he has a case against me?
Let him approach me. The Lord is coming to my help, who will dare to condemn me?
All this after the 3rd episode with my colleague, this time together with my new manager, has got me to reflect further and deeper, or got me to journal.
The revelation this Lent [draft]:
- Identification of –where– I need to transform, not to be converted and transformed before entering into Easter
- So this “where” is self-awareness of actions & consequences on others & listening from the double lesson learned from work advice and in life
- Resolutions include reading through all my notes, silent retreat perhaps Chiang Mai as Alvin is interested. Going back to applying all the simplifying basics
May I discern this Holy Week to finalise my revelations and resolutions.