Brenda Seefeldt, founder of Wild Frontier,
www.wildfrontier.org
Brainstorm an Hour a Week
Schedule an hour a week in
your calendar for brainstorming.
Just wild and creative and
imaginative brainstorming about
future projects. This is a great
way to break from your normal
schedule and normal stressors.
This is a great way to have a time
with the Holy Spirit to inspire
you which equals to a time of
refreshing. Besides, if you don’t
invest the time now into future
grand schemes, you’ll never see
the results later on. And the Holy
Spirit is always involved in grand
schemes!
When I taught my youth group there was a
temptation to be a total sloth in preparing the
lesson. I figured, “Hey, I can write a lesson in an
afternoon.” And I could, but not a good lesson,
with answers for the students’ questions, and
input from other Christian sources.
The other temptation I found was to bleed on
others during the lesson. If I struggled with a
certain verse and didn’t research what others
thought about it, all I had were my thoughts.
And when a struggling voice becomes the final voice, shadows are thrown on the
light of Scripture.
Thus I was/am the Bleeding Sloth. These temptations both came from the same
source: overvaluing my thoughts. The Bible is a source of a divine truth, and
neither my struggles nor my insights can change it. Recognizing this will help me
be less of a Bleeding Sloth.
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Scotty Meiser, Cellophane Glasses blog writer for,
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Attack of the Bleeding Sloth