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Stop Spot

  “I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things. ’” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭45:7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://bible.com/114/isa.45.7.nkjv One of the problems with human response to the experiences of darkness and calamity is not just the asking of wrong question ‘why’. We often do not ask the same question ‘why’ in response to the experiences of light and peace. Therefore, the mind gets burdened with the responsibility of supplying myriads of blame spots, like a chessboard. Although there is no hiding in the fact that human factors, omission and commission do contribute significantly to most of life’s predicament, the sovereign God do accommodate all of human actions and inaction for a purpose. So, the right question at a single stop spot (and not myriad of spots) is ‘what’, and not ‘why’. ‘What are you doing, Lord?’ is always better than ‘Why do you allow that to happen to me?’. Afterall, if man is believed to be part of God’s work in progress, p...

Phase-less Procession

“‘I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭45:2-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/isa.45.2-3.nkjv In human organization and management of project activities, effective management of project activities comes in phases. Depending on the reality and availability of resource control, the order of the sequence of activities or the procession of phases often depends on the underlying management decision to either phase out or phase in any concerned activity. Invariably, management decisions are capable of constituting crooked places on the path of progress, gates of bronze to the palace of promotion, and bars of iron over pack of promises. However, beyond the control of human organization and management lies the layer of divine inte...