Is there any situation I won't lose my calm over? This is the daily service vloggas with Anthony Fungini Night I'll be jittin' this car Be like the elephant, my friend, with a strong character and a gentle soul Is there any situation I won't lose my calm over? Oh, perhaps I've seen some elephants run amok By design, you and I can always respond, okay? The highest form of creation, you can always choose as a reaction No matter how stressful the environment That's called responsibility Sadly, we don't always choose to live by our superior design and how you're calling And only in heaven is our full potential, what is really actual But here we go again, if we choose to, we can progressively Consistently move towards greater control over overwhelming circumstances Chill more, suck less, and win A scene forever, etched in my mind and heart I must have been about six or seven years old I see my youngest sister fall from the swing I think And there's a major cut on her head, blood spilling over And honestly I was most concerned about my mom That she was going through some emotional challenges, having given birth to all of us nine All of us overly active, hyperactive, aggressive nine children But when I saw my mom respond, calmly, resolutely, gently Wow, what a scene Machona, gliwaio, water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle Be shrewd and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise And to think my mom, as I said, was going through her own challenges My dad, who gave himself not just to the business and to the church but the community as well Was quite busy at that time Omar Sherif, and I quote, the strongest souls are those who help others through their storms While they themselves are going through their own The strongest also tend to be the gentlest Interestingly, I found myself most calm when people around me are in total panic Especially when it involves those closest to me And I think I picked this up for my mom It's in my DNA Partly from my dad too, as I've seen him in the most challenging situations Cool calm and collected But even if it is within me, I can only consistently harvest it if I regularly invest in it If I don't exercise it, I diminish it Come on guys, what we don't use, we lose But in what area do I find myself on the verge of losing it?
I take a look at my triggers from yesterday's message And one area that stands out, well two actually, would be gap and relationship When I see a gap when it comes to how I or others fail to treat relationships with dignity and fairness That's the trigger The gap is in the area of people treatment And it's not easy, on one hand I need a company and a family And an organization that looks at child abuse And I need to oversee the right treatment of people On the other hand, the call to be kind and gentle Not just to people in general But especially to those who are not being fair And who are clearly treating someone else wrong It's a tough balance guys, for all of us The paradox of life, of family, of business Of community work And balancing gentleness and firmness at the same time Transparency and prudence Trusting while planning Listening and still advising Of being and taking initiative Jesus was described as a meek and humble But he didn't hesitate to overturn the tables of the business people When he saw his father's house desecrated And what blows my mind is him calling one of his dearest disciples, Peter Calling Peter Satan himself, gap behind me Satan, if you read that chapter, that particular passage When Peter declared his opposition to his master's mission Involving crucifixion Meek is not weak, my dear friends, nor timid You wanna test it? Go to a gentle and meek golden retriever mom Who's just given birth An attempt to snatch her babies from her grasp I think that ultimately my growth As a more gentle and chill father, brother, son Manager friend Lies in the growing personal realization And conviction That because I have lost it so many times I owe it to everyone else to be less demanding Reactive and judgmental And instead to be more understanding Responsive and accepting about this Just like me Indeed, there is no criminal half as bad as me If not for what God and the people around me Have done to help me And who continually pour into me Daily unconditionally I think we all become more chill And we think less of what we are entitled to And more of what we are responsible for