Unfortunately too many would be leaders flunk that approachable category.

Good morning Kerry and thanks for posting on Sunday morning. We all have defining moments. Sometimes we don't see them except in retrospect. So it is for about a third of mine. The rest have all been very conscious choices on my part. I am happy to say that they are all pretty consistent with my beliefs and I have few if any regrets except perhaps that I did not choose as quickly as I might have early on. I find the older I get the easier those choices become as I am more and more sure of where I stand when those choice points arise.








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Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ Sgt (Join to see) for posting the “Colonel’s” VFV Motivational/Inspirational Quotes & Message of the Day! for Sunday, June 26, 2022.

“Define Day!”
I am a husband of one wife, a father of adult sons, an adopted child of God, a retired Army officer, a disabled veteran, a prayer warrior, a pro-life social conservative who supports freedom of speech, worship, the second amendment
1. By God's grace my leadership has been focused on service to and on behalf of those I have been responsible for soldiers, government civilians, to friends and family. My goal and aspiration is to be a servant leader modeled after the selfless service of our LORD and Savior Jesus the Christ.
2. As I matured and responsibility was delegated to me, I learned the importance of sharing the work load of leadership with trustworthy individuals including NCO's, qualified junior enlisted and later subordinate officers. Delegating authority while retaining responsibility helps to fulfil 'the buck stops here.' Nobody's Fault But Mine.
3. My British expatriate parents demonstrated servant leadership for me and my younger sisters at home and at work. They inculcated many noble values into my character and my sisters - respect for each person, dedication to serving and encouraging others.
a. As a servant leader I guided, encouraged, and motivated my unit's soldiers, NCOs and DA civilians to achieve more that could be expected. By God's grace with HIS guidance, I shaped these organizations into excellent teamwork organizations.
b. I learned to be a servant leader as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, at West Point.
c. I lead my family as a servant leader devoted to serving them.


Quotes:
1. Olivia Wilde 'I think its healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person'
2. Neal Boortz 'The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success of failure, however you define those terms.'
3. Denzel Washington 'The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.'
4. C. JoyBell C. 'It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is HIS grace that conquers a miultitude of flaws.


Scriptures
Scriptures
a. Colossians 4:5-6 ESV 'Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
b. 2 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.' For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.’
c. Hebrews 13:1-3 ESV ‘Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body’
d. Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV ‘Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.’
e. 1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV 'As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.'
f. 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV 'Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.'
g. Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

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Nirvana - Serve The Servants (Live On "Tunnel", Rome, Italy/1994)
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