Welcome new members of Bridges Academy. I hope you for you friendship and fellowship, faith and fortitude, as I have found in support groups, training and coaching. 🙂

Welcome, Damtew Kifelew. I read your story and I plan to share it with others.

Here is a question for both James and Damtew.

Please tell us about your favorite way to celebrate Jesus’ birth in Ethiopia. What do you like about Christmas in the U.S.?

I often ponder, “You have not because you ask not.”

From James 4:

²You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. ³When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you…

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A song will come on in the background in a restaurant. A friend will hear it and reminisce.

For example, a Realtor’s husband had passed. She heard a song they played at their wedding that is rarely played.

She could share grief over frozen coconut milk dessert.

I call it a God’s the DJ moment. A sweet, listening time.

That’s what I thought of when I read, “And helping our friend help another friend.”

Leadership training by showing. Sermons not spoken, seen. Spiritual truths emulatable because visible.

When I am responsible for following Jesus’ path of leadership, I can walk and I can talk.

I can demonstrate, and then commentate to provide context and…

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