Rebuilders Build a Team Spirit

Nehemiah is proving to be a wise sage when it comes to the process of rebuilding. Now, as we continue on our journey with Nehemiah, we come to the second important lesson in rebuilding: rebuilders build a team spirit. They do away with the perpendicular pronoun “I,” and they choose instead to say “we” … a lot.

This truth is woven throughout the fabric of the second chapter of Nehemiah’s memoirs as we watch him build a team spirit with those around him. The ability to work together and not against one another is an essential element of rebuilding. This is true whether we are seeking to rebuild a life, a business, a church, an athletic team, a marriage, self-confidence, or whatever. The simple fact is this: rebuilding is a team sport.

Nehemiah was a master at building a team spirit, and he utilized five principles to accomplish his task—principles that we can incorporate into our own rebuilding projects.

First, we must start with our goal in mind. People want to know where we are leading them and how we intend to get them there. Before he ever left Persia for Jerusalem, before he recruited his first fellow worker, before he motivated his people, Nehemiah started with his goal of rebuilding the broken wall in mind. Next, we must seize our opportunities. Listen to Nehemiah as he pleaded with the king to “send me” to Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:5). These are the words of a man who passionately seized the opportunity before him and would not let it go. Third, we must make a careful analysis of our situation. That is, like Nehemiah, we must take a close, careful, and honest look at the ruins that need to be rebuilt in our own lives. For the fourth step, we must motivate our people to get off dead center. And then for the final step in building a team spirit, Nehemiah speaks of the importance of staying on track. If our own process of rebuilding is to be completed, we must work on it as a team without letting anyone or anything divert us or get us off track.

Content drawn from The Nehemiah Code: It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning.

Better luck next time, Draco

grandpa lucius

Let's open the mail together! (Above the cut spoiler: @epitomereally sent me a GORGEOUSLY bound copy of Vis à Vis à Vis. Let's open it.)

Step 1: Do not run with scissors.

Step 2: Don't scream. Don't do it.

Step 3: Okay, scream a little bit, because holy SHIT this cover is perfect. The colors and font are just dead on for this story.

Step 4: Open the book. Breathe. Don't pass out. How glorious is this for a mystery? Seriously.

Step 5: Steel oneself. Oh Jesus fucknut, there's art?! Illegal. The paint is SHINY?! Crime.

Step ?: Actually gasp. It's too powerful. Don't look directly at it, or it will beat you up.

Step 8 or 9: Cry. That's me? Really? Really really?

Step 10ish: Open and experience unabashed awe at humanity. These fonts are, in and of themselves, perfect characterization. This character would absolutely make these design choices. And we love her for it.

Step Oneteen: Get drawn in by the formatting and spend a while just sitting and reading your own story. I think I know how this one ends.

Step 12: Spend a very long time petting the book like a cat. It smells like new office supplies, and I'm very into it.

@secretartlair you're in the book!

Step 13: Sneak the book into your dragon hoard of shiny objects.

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@epitomereally "Thank you" is inadequate, and offering you a kidney is weird. I'm not actually good with words, I just pretend on the Internet.

There is no physical manifestation of my writing anywhere. No scribbled notes, no notebooks, nothing. No evidence that a writer lives here. And now there is, and I can't quite quantify what it means.

I think... thank you for sending me... myself.

People reading and hearing summaries of chainsaw man and concluding it's just a typical shounen about a horny teenage dude feels seeing people reading and hearing summaries of Revolutionary Girl Utena and concluding its just a male gazey anime with lesbians and incest.

People watching the first few episodes of the Chainsaw Man anime and immediately getting switched off by Denji's desire for boobs without understanding that it's setting up how unfulfilling his own goals are and how he really just wants consensual female affection that he's never had in his life is like watching people watch the first few episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena and concluding that the show glorifies gratuitious domestic abuse.

It's like, I can understand people coming to these conclusions cause there's just SO MUCH worse shounen media out there that would fall into these exact complaints but like, it is NOT that. It's different, I swear. It's saying something with what it's doing and it's a really good and important message and good themes overall.

"my bf (in)directly ended my childhood hobby"

I too would die for my cat

dreamgirl

Angel devil stronger than me I would of gone crazy

Reagan,,, 💔

ive got inside job brainrot currently

drunk walk home from mcultra’s

my therapist approved this

Inside Job Memes!!! Everyone is insane

October 11th- CHAINSAW MAN DAYYYYY, Im still not caught up in the mange but watched the first ep and loved it. Weird freak fucks that do heroic shit for selfish reasons are forever my favorite trope

it’s him

she sawing on my chain till i. man [INCORRECT BUZZER]

GOOD DEVILS GONE BAD

3 little pigs