I like a clean house. You can read that sentence any way you want, and you will never see it say anything about me liking to clean my house. Therein lies the challenge of the past. Now that my children are all grown with their own families, and my wife has moved into heaven, it is not too difficult to keep it clean. Because I had guests a few weeks ago, I had a cleaning person come by and get my home tidied up. A few weeks after they left, my regular person came to clean. It seemed like a waste. It was not dirty. I miss my cluttered house, filled with laughing—and some screaming—children. Shouting instructions to our kids (and me), stepping over toys and teenage things seemed like a never-ending curse at the time. I miss that now as well. Yesterday I spoke with two different business leaders. One remarked on how a company might need to release some redundancies in their leadership—a nice term for firing. The other is on the front end of potentially explosive growth, which will require a larger workforce. Adding staff can be burdensome, yet it is growth. New faces and expansion in a Kingdom company are truly a blessing. Solomon reminds us that we can surely keep things clean and easy with no one around, but an abundant life—and a healthy bottom line—involves messy mortals. Today, choose the journey with people. #BeTheEdge
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.” Ecclesiastes 4:9 NIV
