Podcast - A Perfect Day

Podcast - A Perfect Day
June 14, 2008
7:46pm Saturday

Sometimes our own pride gets in the way of what we are doing, it influences what we are doing actually motivating us; our desire not to look bad in our own eyes and/or in the eyes of others. It is so often that pride that makes it difficult for us to hear that quiet voice of God; even in the little things we know what we should be doing but we don’t do it.

Amidst this idea we’ve all had days that we consider “perfect” and days that we consider “not going our way”. Believers that are focussed on God’s will however have a different perspective; at least we try to have a different perspective. As believers we try to understand what God’s will is during any given day, even during a particular moment of our day. And when things don’t “go our way” we try to realign our desires with the standard, God, instead of “our will”.

Friends, even believing friends, are often an unintentional influence in this struggle as we ourselves are. And when we allow ourselves to be influenced by the pride “we don’t want to disappoint them” we commit a sin that is just as great as when we allow our own wills to influence us over the will of God, that ever so quiet influence which we should be focusing on. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”.

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Podcast - Crazy

Podcast - Crazy
June 12, 2008
7:35pm Thursday

“Left wing”, “right wing”, “too far to the left”, “extremist”, there are so many titles to describe people that have one opinion or the other. “Nuts” is another title that I’ve heard thrown around, even at myself. I remember when God gave me faith about the year two thousand or two thousand one that a friend of mine advised me that I should stop talking the way I was or people would think that I was crazy or “an extremist”. … I say let them; because what I have come to know is far too real for me to deny. … What happens in this world is so temporary. I can not deny what I’ve come to know. This podcast touches on those that I hope to one day be in good company with ,,, I say one day because I have yet to have taken it as far as many of them have.

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Podcast - Those In Need

Podcast - Those In Need
June 12, 2008
7:19pm Thursday

There are many in need, and there are those that live a life in such a way to not put themselves in direct contact with those in need. Even more than that they do everything they can to protect what they have instead of doing everything they can to help those that are in need. There is an imbalance that I believe that the Lord will balance for others if they do not chose to balance it themselves. But the Lord is patient and desire for each person to instead correct themselves.

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Podcast - Not What I Wanted

Podcast - Not What I Wanted
June 09, 2008
9:22am Monday

Occasionally I have parts of my days that “Don’t go my way”. And that “not going my way” part can have it’s genesis in any number of things. For me it usually is some combination between “time” and/or “money”. For instance it might not go my way because I wanted to be somewhere at a particular time and that “being somewhere” may also have an impact on an opportunity to make money.

That idea of our day not “going our way” is a popular part of American culture which is contrary to the culture of the first century church that believed that God (or gods if you were pagan) was the contributing factor as to both the big and the little parts of your day (of course I’m oversimplifying for brevity). … Chasing after what we want (which is what I did on this hour of June the 9th) is a part of the poison of this culture which is contrary to the will of God. If we chase after what God wants then we can pursue something that has value. Anything else that we pursue is “a chasing after the wind”.

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Podcast - Mind of God

Podcast - Mind of God
June 07, 2008
7:23am

Many people justify their lack of godly thought by saying that they aren’t perfect. The scriptures do not teach us to be justified by this idea. To the contrary they try, by showing us the example of love that Christ gave to us, to have us own up to the wretches that we are, convict us of what we have each done to separate us from God, and to accept that we can only be justified by God’s holy response to the true wretches that we are. The good news is that Jesus Christ, the Messiah was sent to die for an unholy man; each of us.

This podcast is my own reflection of the wretch that I am, the impurity of my mind; and my desire to have a heart and a mind that would be acceptable to God. I do however understand that I can not have a mind or heart that are acceptable to God except that they be transformed by the sacrificial gift of the Christ.

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Podcast - Judgment

Podcast - Judgment
June 04, 2008
7:59pm

This podast shows me at one of my much less than perfect moments (aren’t all my moments less than perfect?). My heart and mind were set on condemning and judging others and it seemed that I was stuck in it. But God’s grace was there as always to eventually turn things around.

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Podcast - What’s Mine

Podcast - What’s Mine
June 02, 2008
5:35pm

The part that God plays in our lives is both big and small. There is no
part too big or too small that God will effect if you will not let him,
but that’s up to you. God seldom comes barging into our lives, he
seldom lays a heavy hand on us to get our attention. This podcast
focuses our attention on the things that we believe are ours.

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Podcast - Finley Park

Podcast - Finley Park
May 28, 2008
22:36pm

I experienced urban camping (homelessness) for a short period in 1990. And over sixteen years later I spend one or two days a week on the streets or in the shelters to spend time with those that are on occasionally on these streets. While at these shelters or while spending time at other places on the streets in the U.S. I sometimes lament over some of the things that I see or hear. This week’s podcast expresses some of those things.

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20080222 Application for Sup

Application for Sup

Friday Feb 22, 2008
07:46

Add this as an attached letter to my application:

Over fourteen months ago now I came to Telperformance because I believed it was “where I was supposed to be”. I’ve used that phrase quite a few times because we live in a culture that often treats, with a certain uneasiness, clear explanations of what God’s will is. And yes I know starting off like this (in an application for a position) is not something that many people might consider normal, or generally acceptable. However I hope whoever is reading this is different.

What I believe God wants me to do with my life is the most important part of each day; unless of course I am distracted by something (I am human of course). That belief is what carried me here to Teleperformance in the first place, over fourteen months ago, and what I believe makes me an excellent choice for a position as a supervisor. God’s will is why I chose the path that I chose, from Tier1 to Tier2, and from COT to Quality Assurance Specialist. Now I don’t hear voices so sometimes this idea of what I should do next isn’t as clear as it is with others. I find that is the case with my move to supervisor. Perhaps the reason for that lack of clarity has to do with some decisions that need to be made by other people, we all have free will of course.

If I am chosen for a position as supervisor I know I will do good job, I always do. In regard to my performance what can be said about me carries more weight than what I can say about myself. I believe the primary reason why I am a good choice for supervisor is that I genuinely care about the people that are around me, not just the people that I can benefit from, but everyone. As a QA I have spent time with the stronger members of my two teams to show how much I appreciate them, and I have spent time with the weaker members of the teams to show them that I believed in them. My caring however does not make me blind, I recognize team members (without regard for their stats) that are not a benefit to the team as a whole. There are reasons why certain individuals should not be here at Teleperformance, some performance based, some personal; there is another plan and another place for them.

I do everything I can to help those around me, I work hard to provide the tools and resources that my teams need to excel, I hope I encourage people to do their best; I believe I do but you would have to ask them. And on the note of encouragement I would like to extend my appreciation for the way I’ve seen things change over these fourteen months. When I first arrived at Teleperformance Columbia it didn’t take longer than a few weeks for me to realize that negative reinforcement and fear based management were primary bases for the work culture that I had just entered into. Experience has taught me that these don’t work very well if your goal is to have a thriving work environment and I have been happy to see this gradually change for the better over these many months. It is that change in environment that has led me to reconsider my initial decision of becoming a supervisor here.

Now as for my accomplishments, I find these more difficult to list because I haven’t kept track of them as well as I should have. I’ll try to remember a few here. What stands out in my mind first is the recognition that received as a COT agent. I had to worke hard in that position and after a few weeks my team mates, then my supervisor began to see how hard I worked to resolve the issues, and the level of ownership that I brought to every issue. Now that ownership sometimes led me to biting off more than I could chew. I still took on the challenges however and everything else took care of itself. That hard work was seen by others as well and I began having BellSouth Division managers call me specifically to assist in resolving issues and our BellSouth Partner Manager began using me on more challenging issues as well.

As a QA I am grateful that I was able to play an part in the successful turn around of Team Sysiphus. That team began as one of the lowest in the call center and I was specifically requested to be the QA for that team. I brought the “Just love’m” factor to add to Shaun’s “they just need to relax” ideal to create a winning combination of that has led that team to now consistently be one of the top performers in the call center every month.

Grace and Babbling

Grace and Babbling
Friday Dec 14, 2007 // 0628amI stopped writing over a month ago, for the most part. I stopped writing because of my own arrogance. I started, a few months ago, changing from a purer motivation for writing, to a corrupt motivation for writing. I started writing with the idea of convincing other men or women (in my mind) to think as I would want them to. There is much more to say about that but I don’t seem to be able to find the words to express what I am wanting to say. All I know is that I have a desire in my heart that I want to scribe, but I can’t seem to get out the exact words.

Which brings me to my second point. Because I have stopped writing over a month ago, maybe two months, I have found it increasingly more difficult to express myself with words. I “feel like” I am speaking another language as I am trying to speak english. And what has come out of my mouth so often has been something that I just attempted to ‘push’ out of my mouth because I did not want to appear stupid or otherwise incapable of saying something of intellect. Now, what has come out of my mouth;I don’t know because I’m not the one that is listening to me, has probably been a mixture of stupidity or what has sounded like much babbling. But then perhaps that would only be if someone were actually listening to me and thought enough to actually consider what I was saying. Because I know that,so many people in general, have the habit of overlooking what someone says and simply moving on about there day.

I’m writing all of these things because my inability to express myself, I believe, has also bled over into my inability to express myself to God. And also my inability to express myself to people that I want to share my faith with. So, I believe I have been more and more inept at praying and sharing my faith. I want to be better able at both, however I don’t want to be motivated to do either just for the sake of being able to do them better, or for the sake of feeling better about myself. But rather I want to look to the cross, to understand the love that the Christ demonstrated every day as he walked among us in human form, ‘and’ to most of all remember the unearnable grace that was given to me. … If I was to bumble around and never do anything right again for the rest of my life, I would still recieve the grace that God has given me. The fact that I do everything I can motivated by the gift that was given to me, is in fact a sign that that grace has been truly given to me. Because, if on the contrary I had no desire to do better for the sake of Christ (not doing my dead level best), then I could be assured that I truly had ‘not’ received the grace that Christ gave. There can be no salvation without works though contrarily salvation is impossible to achieve by works.