Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Beginnings

I'm beginning to be of the opinion that the success of an organization or group (or perhaps even a person) depends on the circumstances out of which it was birthed. Ones formed out of love for particular groups of people seem to me to be doing pretty well. Examples? The ACS family of schools is one...started by an American missionary to educate a small group of 13 students. The Boys' Brigade is another, formed to keep young men off the streets and in the church. Today, it has grown to be a worldwide organization, not to mention the other uniformed youth organizations that are said to have sprung from it.

On the other hand, organisations formed out of distress or dispute with another party don't quite seem to be doing as well, even though it may have seemed the right decision at the time. I won't go into concrete examples, even though I have some in mind, coz it's not very nice. But this is just my theory. And it's not absolute, simply because success is not dependent absolutely on circumstances. It's largely dependent on our human reaction to those circumstances. We can choose to come out from trials with our own selfish ideas and implement them, or we can choose to learn from our errors,with humility have faith in God, trust Him, His wisdom and His Word, and we then have every potential for this trial to turn into a successful situation.

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