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 What is Gap Filler You May Ask?  A gap filler is someone who has the ability and awareness to see opportunities and challenges around them, then fill them.  When there is a gap in communication, someone has to fill the void.  When there is a gap in leadership, someone has to fill the void.  When there is a gap in love, someone has to fill the void. When there is a gap in work, someone has to fill the void. It is self-explanatory to understand that a gap filler, fills gaps.  It is also very easy to misunderstand the importance and strength it takes to be a gap filler. Practically this looks like covering a shift of another co-worker, looks like overcommunicating to others that may bring conflict upon yourself, taking the burden of hurt from others and their trama, as well as taking the blame knowingly when another leader falls short. This is a heavy burden sometimes because you have to be the glue that holds seemingly everything together. But, take heart, b...

Key Points:  What gets our attention determines our direction and, ultimately, our destination.  Whereas emotion fuels the things that grab our attention, intentionality fuels our decision to give certain things our attention. Attention, direction, destination. Why do people tell us to pay attention? Why pay ? Pay implies price. Pay implies a cost. Pay implies giving away something of value. And it is this sense of loss that keeps us from paying attention to the things that deserve our attention and would serve us best in the future. Your eye-- what you see, gaze at, and pay attention to-- is the lantern of your entire life. It lights or leads your way. As your body follows a light in the dark, so your life follows what your eye focuses on. The problem is not the lack of understanding as much as it is a lack of application. As your attention goes, so goes your life. So pay careful attention to what you are paying attention to.

Key Points: All of life, you see, is filled with decision making situations that occur in emotionally charged environments. Your decision-making environments are not emotionally neutral. More often than not, the circumstances we face are saturated with powerful emotions. Those emotions easily turn into misguided passions. In the end, passion clouds the ability to accurately evaluate the circumstance in order to choose the right path. Emotions cloud our ability to see things they actually are.  Emotionally driven decision making rarely leads us down the right path. In the emotion of the moment, we are easily swayed by conventional wisdom, cultural norms, the herd mentality, or even our own patterns of behavior.  A moral imperative is any situation in which there's a wrong that needs to be right. In the story of David, he pointed to a principle he knew he had no business violating. Simply put, he had no right to replace what God had put in place. One ne...

Key Points: Life would be so much easier the second time around if we had an opportunity to learn from our first time around. How do we know which way to go when you've never been where you are going? Eyes on the Road The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. (Prov. 27:12)  A prudent man or women understand that all of life is connected.  In the light of my past experience, and my future hopes and dreams, what's the wise thing to do? The simple or naive person lives as though life is disconnected; as if there is no connection between today's choices and tomorrow's experiences. Course Correction We have all heard that experience is the best teacher. But the truth is, about the only thing most of us learn from experience is what to expect when we repeat the same bad decisions. The primary difference between the prudent and the simple is not what they see but how they respond to what they see. Forgiveness an...

Key Points: What if there was a road that led out of the valley of guilt, shame, or even depression? If that were the case, you would stop looking for solutions to problems, and you would start looking for the right path. Recognizing the distinction between a solution and a path is the first step in understanding the principle of the path.  There is no fix for being lost. To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction. There isn't a quick fix. Hard times reveal where we are (and where we aren't) faster than anything else. What we experience as unrelated isolated events are really steps in a specific direction. You don't have problems to fix; you have directions that need to change. Direction --not intention-determines our destination. Simply put, you and I will win or lose in life by the paths we choose.

Key Points: The principle you employ every time you look at a map or fire up your GPS (i.e., roads lead to the same place every time) applies to other areas of life as well.  You can break a law. But the principle of the path has the power to break you. You don't have to know it or apply it to be impacted by it,  Chances are you've heard the principle of the harvest applied outside the realm of agriculture, The principle of the harvest applies to friendships, finances, and marriage. What you put into something impacts what you can expect to get out of it.  Perhaps you've heard someone make the argument that experience is the best teacher. That may be true, but that's only half the truth. Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up your most valuable commodity: time. The Principle of the Path is a principle that cannot be broken that is evaluated by the decisions you make. Each decision is interconnected and has value on the path you are taking...